CELTA CELTA Assessment & Feedback

Question 1

Which type of feedback is most appropriate immediately after a fluency activity in a CELTA lesson?

Accepted Answer

Praise effort, then address only major communication-blocking errors

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Correct every error in writing on the board

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Interrupt students mid-task to fix pronunciation

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Provide no feedback to preserve confidence

Question 2

What does 'delayed error correction' mean in a CELTA context?

Accepted Answer

Noting errors during a task and addressing them afterward

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Correcting errors weeks after they occur

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Ignoring errors permanently

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Asking a stronger student to correct a weaker one immediately

Question 3

On the CELTA course, which instrument is most commonly used by tutors to give trainees structured written feedback?

Accepted Answer

A formal observation feedback form

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A personal journal entry

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A peer review email

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An oral-only debrief with no written record

Question 4

What is the primary purpose of the 'Language Related Task' (LRT) assignment on the CELTA course?

Accepted Answer

To demonstrate trainees' ability to analyze language as a teacher would

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To assess trainees' ability to plan grammar lessons

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To test how well trainees memorize grammar rules

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To evaluate trainees' academic writing style

Question 5

Which feedback technique involves a teacher repeating a learner's error with rising intonation to prompt self-correction?

Accepted Answer

Elicitation

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Recast

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Clarification request

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Explicit correction

Question 6

A 'recast' in corrective feedback refers to which teacher action?

Accepted Answer

Repeating the learner's utterance in correct form without explicit comment

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Ignoring the error and moving on

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Writing the error on the board and asking the class to fix it

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Stopping the lesson to explain the grammar rule