Linking ideas with digital feedback. Development of English Connectives with multiple option tasks

Abstract

The objective of this pre-experimental study is to identify the knowledge of five categories of English connectives as well as the impact of digital feedback of said knowledge in multiple choice tasks. The sample is formed by students from two public universities, one in Mexico and one in Honduras, whose programs specialize in English as a Foreign Language. The study design is pretest – treatment – post-test – delayed post-test. The results show a good domain of all five categories from the start with higher scores in frequent and simple connectives. The ANOVA results reveal a significant difference between the pretest and the post-tests with higher scores in the latter. The type of task, sampling, and the amount of feedback should be considered as factors that may contribute to the success of a treatment with digital feedback, as well as its impact on motivation and self-regulated learning.