 Let's discuss the relationship between assessment and motivation, response of teacher and students' love for writing and how teacher's positive response can contribute towards students' motivation, self-esteem and positive feelings. So positive feedback, what the research suggests and what you all might agree with me has an integral relationship with writing skillfully. So it helps improve students' attitude towards writing and I would like to put two examples here for your convenience to see what kind of written comments actually help students see things positively. The first example in commas, the part about the fire was really interesting. Can you tell me more about that? So as you can see yourself, this sentence is quite interesting, motivating and encouraging. On the other hand, if it were like this, your introduction is poor. So students might find this sentence quite vague, quite demoralizing or demotivating. Look at the second feedback comment. You wrote that the end of movie surprised you, what were you expecting. So this is actually kind of invitation to the students. The teacher here is inviting students to reflect, to ponder, to think, to see things what they have written, what else they could have written. So this kind of feedback is dialogic, it's called dialogic feedback, which invites students to come to the teacher and discuss, seek clarification, seek explanation. So this is how the feedback which propels students seek clarification or explanation, explanation is considered positive and encouraging. On the other hand, if we had negative feedback, it might have influenced negatively upon the students. So the question is, do we have specific place for feedback in our courses? You might not be surprised by this question. Unfortunately, we don't have because in our educational context, especially government run schools and colleges, we have intermediate exams. We have so many other institutional and ministerial constraints to follow. But we as linguists, this is our job as language teachers to come up with strategies, techniques, tools to give feedback and make place for it in the course. And the feedback actually helps students see that what they are producing, what they are writing is worthwhile, is value-laden. So there can be a number of ways. For example, you can make the students read aloud to their work to others and the peers can give feedback. This is collaborative strategy and this is very useful. And you can also exemplary feedback you can put on the walls and print in the form of collection. But I would like to give a word of caution not to give negative feedback in the presence of so many other class fellows because that might engender loss of self esteem and identity. So some students may not like the praise. So it's important to give them personalized and separate feedback. So feedback overall, which is positive, which is clear, which is specific, which is brief, helps improve writing skills of students by motivating them, by encouraging them. And it also helps them write speedily and effectively.