This paper illustrates one case study which investigated typical types of corrective feedback used by one Japanese teacher and favorite types of corrective feedback of 36 Japanese EFL learners to see if there were differences between the teacher and learners. One classroom was audio-recorded and the transcribed data was categorized into items followed by one framework to investigate the teacher's tendencies of corrective feedback.The results revealed that there was a difference between teacher's feedback and learners' preferences. The teacher used indirect types of corrective feedback whereas learners expressed their interests to direct types of corrective feedback. Some suggestions for classroom interaction,emphasized on corrective feedback, are mentioned in response to the results.
Masa Tsuneyasu (Sun,) studied this question.