Feedback

Recently I have been thinking about giving feedback to students and based on the experience I live in the school I current work for and some articles I red during my undergraduate studies and after i realized something:
Encouragement must go to 100% of students. Many students when starting a new language they are afraid of trying because they don´t want to make mistakes in front of other, specially if they are adults. What a teacher should do? It´s important to show that making mistake is a part of the learning process, if the students are making mistakes it´s because they are trying, which means they are feeling comfortable enough to take risks in order to learn without these "mistake-making" worries. It´s very important to please any attempt made by any student. Why? Giving this recognition is a kind of motivation maintainance and as a consequence the students will always feel like trying.
It´s also useful if your s tudents write compositions for you. Why? Because there is a good chance that these compositions are never shown to anybody else, which brings the though: These students write only to me, I´m the only person who reads them. So, why not make some comments beyond the corrections? Even if they show these compositions to other people, why not make some comments on what they´ve written? Making them heard or read beyond correction level will lead your students learning process to another level.