Investigating Teachers ‘ negative\corrective feedback on English Foreign Language Learners

Abstract

Feedback is crucial element in guiding learners to correctly acquire language. This study tackles negative \corrective feedback, that provides the truth about the correctness or falseness about learner's mistakes and errors. For that reason,this study aims to explore the effects of negative feedbackon learners in classroom,its impacts on learnersmotivation and self-efficacy, and to find out urban and rural EFL learners perceptions to their teachers negative feedbacks.Three instruments have been used to collect data for the study: observation,a questionnaire,and an interview.The findings shows that teachers' negative feedbacks influence learners' motivation, self-efficacy. This influence can be positive or negative. As a result of the study, it can be argued that urban and rural EFL learners in middle schools do not receive negative feedback in the same manner.