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Abalkheel, Albatool; Brandenburg, Tara – English Language Teaching, 2020
Many language teachers spend countless hours correcting student writing in hopes of improvement in accuracy, but as of yet, there has been little consensus regarding the efficacy of written corrective feedback (CF) or the type of CF that is most efficient. Although many studies have been conducted on the topic, conflicting results have arisen. In…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Written Language, Feedback (Response), Educational Research
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Alkhawajah, Fatimah – English Language Teaching, 2022
The current study investigated whether there exists a differential effect of direct and indirect corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of rule-based features (simple present) and item-based features (prepositions). Fifty students enrolled in an EFL writing class were divided into four groups. Each group received one of the following…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Grammar, Form Classes (Languages)
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Chompurach, Wichuta – English Language Teaching, 2021
The present study aims to investigate how Thai EFL university students use Google Translate (GT) in English writing, how they post-edit (PE) its outputs, and how they view GT use in English writing. The participants were 15 third-year non-English major students from three universities in Thailand. The data collection tools were an interview and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
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Sermsook, Kanyakorn; Liamnimitr, Jiraporn; Chantarangkul, Vikrom – English Language Teaching, 2020
Games have been widely accepted as an effective tool for language learning. They help learners achieve better learning outcome and create a learning atmosphere which contribute to learners' learning. The present study, hence, employed games to help EFL learners write better in English. In the present study, games were used to encourage Thai EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, 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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Wang, Ting; Jiang, Lin – English Language Teaching, 2015
The role of written corrective feedback (WCF) in the process of acquiring a second language (L2) has been an issue of considerable controversies over past decades. This article intends to provide a critical review of the increasing number of WCF studies thus far and to inspire new perspectives for future research. It starts by briefly tracing the…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
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Shao, Xu – English Language Teaching, 2015
Truscott (1996) questions the practicability of grammar correction, and he believes that written corrective feedback (WCF) is not only a waste of time, but even harmful to the students as well. This has led to a great deal of discussion and research on WCF in second-language (L2) writing. Ferris (1999) is the representative opponent of Truscott's…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
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Livingston, Sue; Toce, Andi; Casey, Toce; Montoya, Fernando; Hart, Bonny R.; O'Flaherty, Carmela – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study first briefly describes an instructional approach to teaching grammar known as X-Word Grammar and then compares its effectiveness in assisting students in achieving grammatical accuracy with traditionally taught grammar. Two groups of L2 pre-college students were taught using curricula and practice procedures in two different grammar…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Accuracy, Essays
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Rooholamin, Amir; Biria, Reza; Haghverdi, Hamid Reza – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present study provides a report on an experiment seeking the effect of proactive intensive form-focused instruction on the grammatical development of intermediate and advanced Iranian EFL learners. More specifically the aim of the study was to discern (a) whether the grammatical knowledge of Iranian EFL learners at different proficiency levels…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ghandi, Maryam; Maghsoudi, Mojtaba – English Language Teaching, 2014
The aim of the current study was to investigate the impact of indirect corrective feedback on promoting Iranian high school students' spelling accuracy in English (as a foreign language). It compared the effect of direct feedback with indirect feedback on students' written work dictated by their teacher from Chicken Soup for the Mother and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Gulzar, Malik Ajmal; Jilani, Sartaj Fakhar; Javid, Choudhary Zahid – English Language Teaching, 2013
It is inevitable that learners make mistakes in the process of learning a foreign language. Despite this fact, what is questioned by language teachers is why students go on making the same mistakes even when such mistakes have been repeatedly pointed out to them. Yet, not all mistakes are the same and sometimes they seem deeply ingrained, but at…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Writing Skills
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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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Rassaei, Ehsan; Moinzadeh, Ahmad – English Language Teaching, 2011
The current research examines the immediate and delayed effects of three types of corrective feedback, namely recasts, metalinguistic feedback, and clarification requests, on the acquisition of English wh-question forms by Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 134 Iranian EFL learners comprising 4 intact classes participated in the study. Learners in…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Instructional Effectiveness