In recent years, teachers at the Bunkyo English Communication Centre (BECC) have been involved in a project basing materials and courses around the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Working with standardized rubrics, we have also begun giving CEFR based feedback for spoken and written assessments. Rather than getting ‘just a number’, students are encouraged to take the feedback they are given and use it to motivate and inform their extra studies within our Self Access Learning Centre (SALC). This report will briefly discuss the basic concepts of feedback and the development of our CEFR based rubrics. It will then outline how we are using these rubrics to give students a positive and motivating combination of grades, feedback and advice to students. Finally, other forms of in-house feedback will also be discussed.
Richard Sugg (Thu,) studied this question.