TITLE:
Medal and Mission Feedback in ESL Classrooms: A Literature Review
AUTHORS:
Hafizah Mohamad Fawzi, Maslawati Mohamad
KEYWORDS:
English as Second Language (ESL), Formative Assessment, Teacher Feed-back, Medal and Mission, ESL Learners
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.11 No.12,
December
9,
2020
ABSTRACT: Teacher feedback is one of the important components in teaching and learning. Teacher feedback functions as information provided by teachers to learners in order to reduce the gaps between learners’ current level of understanding and the targeted learning goals. Researchers have revealed a few issues
and concerns related to teacher feedback. Teacher feedback is discovered to
be ineffective, vague and too general. Some teacher feedback also consist negative remark that adversely affect learners’ self-esteem. The shortcomings of
teacher feedback have led to its failure in enhancing learners’ development.
As an effort to overcome this problem, many education systems have resorted
in practicing formative feedback. This paper provides a literature review on
one of formative feedback practices, Medal and Mission Feedback. Medal and
Mission Feedback is a type of feedback that acknowledges learners’ strengths,
identifies learning obstacles and suggests the next necessary steps for improvements. Teachers need to consider a few important characteristics when
providing Medal and Mission. It is hoped that this paper is able to provide
useful insights to ESL teachers especially in practicing this newly introduced
feedback practice.