CELTA CELTA Assessment & Feedback 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which type of feedback is most appropriate immediately after a fluency activity in a CELTA lesson?
- Correct every error in writing on the board
- Praise effort, then address only major communication-blocking errors (Correct answer)
- Interrupt students mid-task to fix pronunciation
- Provide no feedback to preserve confidence
Correct answer: Praise effort, then address only major communication-blocking errors
After fluency activities, feedback should prioritize errors that impeded communication while acknowledging students' effort.
Question 2: What does 'delayed error correction' mean in a CELTA context?
- Correcting errors weeks after they occur
- Noting errors during a task and addressing them afterward (Correct answer)
- Ignoring errors permanently
- Asking a stronger student to correct a weaker one immediately
Correct answer: Noting errors during a task and addressing them afterward
Delayed error correction involves the teacher noting errors during a task and then discussing them with the class after the activity ends.
Question 3: On the CELTA course, which instrument is most commonly used by tutors to give trainees structured written feedback?
- A personal journal entry
- A formal observation feedback form (Correct answer)
- A peer review email
- An oral-only debrief with no written record
Correct answer: A formal observation feedback form
CELTA tutors use a formal observation feedback form that identifies strengths and areas for development against the assessment criteria.
Question 4: What is the primary purpose of the 'Language Related Task' (LRT) assignment on the CELTA course?
- To assess trainees' ability to plan grammar lessons
- To demonstrate trainees' ability to analyze language as a teacher would (Correct answer)
- To test how well trainees memorize grammar rules
- To evaluate trainees' academic writing style
Correct answer: To demonstrate trainees' ability to analyze language as a teacher would
The LRT assesses whether trainees can analyze language items — form, meaning, and pronunciation — at the level needed to teach them.
Question 5: Which feedback technique involves a teacher repeating a learner's error with rising intonation to prompt self-correction?
- Recast
- Clarification request
- Elicitation (Correct answer)
- Explicit correction
Correct answer: Elicitation
Elicitation prompts learners to self-correct by signaling through intonation or gesture that something needs to be reconsidered.
Question 6: A 'recast' in corrective feedback refers to which teacher action?
- Ignoring the error and moving on
- Repeating the learner's utterance in correct form without explicit comment (Correct answer)
- Writing the error on the board and asking the class to fix it
- Stopping the lesson to explain the grammar rule
Correct answer: Repeating the learner's utterance in correct form without explicit comment
A recast is when the teacher reformulates the learner's erroneous utterance correctly, providing implicit corrective input.
CELTA CELTA Assessment & Feedback 1
Which type of feedback is most appropriate immediately after a fluency activity in a CELTA lesson?