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Nassaji, Hossein – Language Learning, 2007
This research investigates the usefulness of two major types of interactional feedback (elicitation and reformulation) in dyadic interaction. The focus is on the different ways in which each feedback type is provided and their relationship with learner repair. The participants were 42 adult intermediate English as a second language learners and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English Teachers, Interpersonal Communication, Adults
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Day, Richard R.; And Others – Language Learning, 1984
Presents the results of an investigation into how native speakers of English provide corrective feedback to errors in conversation with their nonnative speaker friends. Native speakers responded to errors by using either on-record or off-record corrective feedback and several noncorrective discourse devices to repair conversational difficulties.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education
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Chaudron, Craig – Language Learning, 1977
Reaction of the target language speaker to the second language learner's errors may play an important role in developing awareness of norms of correctness. A model for corrective feedback has been developed. Its use helps isolate ambiguities, highlights features of corrective interaction effective in eliciting correct performance. (CHK)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Feedback, Language Instruction
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Benson, Bronwen – Language Learning, 1988
Error analysis of the informal conversations (in both the interlanguage [IL] and native language) of two native Vietnamese speakers gave limited support to the hypothesis that a universal preference for the open syllable is a shaping force in IL phonology that is independent of the process of native language transfer. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Interlanguage
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Seedhouse, Paul – Language Learning, 1997
Reviews the relationship between pedagogy and interaction by analyzing extracts from second-language (L2) classrooms using a conversation analysis methodology. Points out that the relationship between the two is necessarily reflexive and concludes that it would be preferable for pedagogical recommendations to harmonize with the interactional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)
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Rifkin, Benjamin; Roberts, Felicia D. – Language Learning, 1995
Examines error gravity research design and its theoretical assumptions. Results indicate that investigators have only skimmed the surface of the process of error evaluation, which is shaped by extralinguistic factors. The article concludes that researchers should reconceptualize error gravity research and reassess earlier studies to confirm or…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns