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Altamimi, Dheif Allah Hussain Falah; Ab Rashid, Radzuwan; Elhassan, Yasir Mohamed Mohamed – English Language Teaching, 2018
The purpose of this review paper is to identify the core spelling errors in Arabic and Non Arabic Contexts. The most common difficulty that Arab learners may face during their English writing is correct spelling, for many different reasons such as the interference between English and Arabic language and the irregularity of the English language…
Descriptors: College Students, Spelling, Error Patterns, Error Correction
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Chen, Wenling – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present study, through sample analysis and questionnaires, investigates the effects of different types of corrective feedback in 250 essays of the first-year English major students and the students' responses to different feedback strategies. The study shows that 1) the students can improve their writing with the help of the feedback and that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Majors (Students), College Students
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Hashemnezhad, Hossein; Mohammadnejad, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2012
The use of WCF is a striking necessity in learning of English as a foreign language. If teachers and students can manipulate well the use of written feedback, both parties will benefit. This research looked at the types of feedback given to EFL students during a 16-week study. For the purpose of the current survey eighty students enrolled freely…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Yoke, Soo Kum; Rajendran, Cecilia Bai; Sain, Noridah; Kamaludin, Puteri Nur Hidayah; Nawi, Sofwah Md; Yusof, Suhaili – English Language Teaching, 2013
Conventional corrective feedback has been widely practiced but has been said to be tedious, stressful and time consuming. As such, the focus of this study is to investigate the use of an alternative method to giving corrective feedback namely, an online corrective feedback through e-mail. In order to examine if this innovative form of corrective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail
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Hamouda, Arafat – English Language Teaching, 2011
It is no doubt that teacher written feedback plays an essential role in teaching writing skill. The present study, by use of questionnaire, investigates Saudi EFL students' and teachers' preferences and attitudes towards written error corrections. The study also aims at identifying the difficulties encountered by teachers and students during the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Yan, Hansheng – English Language Teaching, 2010
The lexical collocation in English is an important content in the linguistics theory, and also a research topic which is more and more emphasized in English teaching practice of China. The collocation ability of English decides whether learners could masterly use real English in effective communication. In many years' English teaching practice,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning