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Table 1 Definition of themes, categories and corresponding examples

From: Video feedback and Foreign Language Anxiety in online pronunciation tasks

Key themes

Categories

Definitions

Emotional input

Conversational and interactional

Dialogue between lecturers and students in order to build knowledge together

Closeness

Connected to the teacher and personalised, greatest sense of closeness

Caring and motivating

Video feedback contained the teacher’s emotional input to the feedback, thus making it sound more “human”

Enhanced understanding

Personalised corrective feedback

Video feedback in the form of individualised video recordings of the lecturer commenting each assignment

Clear and detailed

Plain language, task-focused rather than person-focused

Usable

Providing information which is tailored to the students’ needs so that it may be used more easily

Feedback engagement

Proactive recipience

The students are receptive, enthusiastic and open about receiving information regarding their effort

Paying attention to the feedback

It involves actually paying attention to the feedback and being prepared to consider it, take it on board, and relate it to one’s own process of learning

Committed to change and development

State of pre-engagement involving being committed to change and development (readiness to engage)

  1. Note: The definition of the themes and categories is based on previous literature review