Corrective Feedback 5: Exploring the Discourse with Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo
We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, to produce an 8-part mini series on the topic of Corrective Feedback. The series explores the area of corrective feedback through interviews with 8 scholars in the field. All interviews are conducted by students in Dr. Eva Kartchava's MA class at Carleton University as a means of assessment to connect researchers to their audience and have her students generate a greater level of understanding and investment in the research from the course. If you are interested in having a similar series produced for your class or institute, you can contact us: info@learnyourenglish.com
This is episode 5 in our series, featuring Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo. Dr. Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo is the director of the research group Language in speech - a multidisciplinary group at the University of the Basque country in Spain. The group focuses on the acquisition of English as a foreign language. Dr. Mayo has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Iowa and is the director of the MA program Language Acquisition in MultiLingual Settings as well as the head of the department of English and German studies at the university of the Basque Country. Her publications span the area of second and third language acquisition of English, morphosyntax, and the study of conversational interaction in EFL. She is also the editor of journal Language Teaching Research.
In this episode, Dr. García Mayo discusses:
the Spanish EFL context
recent studies revolving around language learning and the high school context in Spain
the arguments for and against self-repair, recast, and implicit & explicit feedback
why there is such a research gap with children
teacher training and corrective feedback
the role of research - and researchers - in classroom application
*This interview was conducted by Jean Charlebois and Sarah Langridge
Throughout the series, MA students from Dr. Kartchava's class will interview leading experts in the field of corrective feedback. We thank Dr. Kartchava for joining this episode and for spearheading this initiative
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About María del Pilar García Mayo
Dr. García Mayo is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of the Basque Country, of which she is currently the Head. She holds a B.A. in Germanic Philology from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and an M.A. (TESOL and Linguistics) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Iowa (thesis: On certain null operator constructions in English and Spanish). She has been invited to universities in Canada, China, Germany, Greece, Norway, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, the UK and the USA. Her publications span the areas of second (L2)/third language (L3) acquisition of English morphosyntax and the study of conversational interaction in EFL. She is also interested in bilingual/multilingual education and the age factor. She has supervised thirteen Ph.D. dissertations (all of them with the highest distinction and five awarded 'Extraordinary Ph.D. Prize') and ten more are in progress. She has also served in numerous national and international Ph.D., MA and promotion committees. Since September 2018, she has been co-editor of the journal Language Teaching Research (Sage- Q1).
Her latest volumes include:
Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School: Research Insights
Recent Perspectives on Task-based Language Learning and Teaching
Recent Publications
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