La reazione all’errore. Implicazioni didattiche e interazionali dei principali tipi di feedback correttivo conversazionale in classe

Faced with the student's error, the teacher reacts in various ways. This contribution is aimed at teachers, in service or in training, to raise awareness and refine the practice of using a fundamental didactic tool in conversational exchange with students: correction (or rather, "repair" or feedback). The text first delimits the theme of "error reaction", defined as "negative conversational feedback", in line with the perspective taken by the interactionist vein of studies on language acquisition. With the help of examples from interactions of the Italian L2 class context the fundamental ways of reacting to language errors in learners' speech are discussed. Based on the main results of the research on feedback, the main didactic and interactional consequences are outlined for each of them. The work concludes with some ideas for actions and reflections on feedback.