Corrective feedback is any reaction by the teacher to demonstrate incorrect usage of language. There are six types of feedback corrections:


• explicit correction, which refers to the explicit provision of the correct form;
• recast, which involves the teacher’s reformulation of all or part of a student’s utterance, minus the error;
• clarification requests, which indicate to students either that their utterance has been misunderstood by the teacher or that the utterance is ill-formed in some way;
• metalinguistic feedback, which contains either comments, information, or questions related to the well-formedness of the student’s utterance;
• elicitation, where the teacher prompts the student to correct themselves by asking questions or pausing to allow the student to complete the teacher’s utterance correctly;
• repetition, where the teacher repeats the student’s error, often with a change in intonation to highlight the mistake.
LYSTER, R.; RANTA, L. Corrective feedback and learner uptake: Negotiation of form in communicative classrooms. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, n. 19, p. 37-66, 1997 (adapted).

In an Elementary English class, the teacher asks the students to introduce themselves. The first student stands up and says, “Hi, my name is Carlos. I from Venezuela. I have 12 years old.” The teacher didn’t want to demotivate the students by pointing out the errors because he believes making errors is part of the learning process. So, he used a type of corrective feedback by saying, “I am from Venezuela. I am 12 years old.”

Considering this situacion, to correct the student’s utterance, the teacher used a type of corrective feedback known as