Canvas Mobile Application for English Language Learning through Corrective Feedback

Nowadays, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is contributing to the education field and consequently in English learning as a foreign language. To reinforce this advantage, it is important to add the chance that technological devices allow for corrective feedback comments, in which learners can identify mistakes and correct them on their own. This study considered four types of exercises in the Canvas platform and considered three types of corrective feedback to students have the chance to confirm their correct answers or to correct their mistakes by themselves through the Canvas application. Using this mobile application on cellphones allows students to find support in grammar exercises, innovating the traditional way of learning. The goal of this article is to give corrective, non-corrective, and metalinguistic feedback so students can be engaged and participate actively in their learning. Furthermore, another objective is to compare the Canvas application and its feedback types with paper-based exercises with explicit feedback. The results show that Canvas obtained a 4.6% of improving in grammar learning and that the type of question students prefer is ordering statements with 84.80%.