Oral feedback involves all the word choice issues that written feedback does, but it also includes some unique issues. Where and when should you give oral feedback? You need to speak to the student at a time and a place in which the student is ready and willing to hear what you have to say. Individual oral feedback ranges more broadly than any other type of feedback, from the very formal and structured (student–teacher conferences) to the very informal (a few whispered words as you pass a student's seat). Group oral feedback—for example, speaking to a whole class about a common
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