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Fu, Mengxia; Li, Shaofeng – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This article reports on a study exploring the differential effects of immediate and delayed corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of the English past tense. One hundred and forty-five seventh-grade EFL learners were assigned to four groups: Immediate CF, Delayed CF, Task Only, and Control. Each experimental group performed six focused…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Shintani, Natsuko – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
This study examines the effects of the timing of explicit instruction (EI) on grammatical accuracy. A total of 123 learners were divided into two groups: those with some productive knowledge of past-counterfactual conditionals (+Prior Knowledge) and those without such knowledge (-Prior Knowledge). Each group was divided into four conditions. Two…
Descriptors: Grammar, Accuracy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sheen, Younghee – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
This article examines whether there is any difference between the effect of oral and written corrective feedback (CF) on learners' accurate use of English articles. To this end, the current research presents the results of a quasi-experimental study with a pretest, immediate-posttest, delayed-posttest design, using 12 intact intermediate…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Metalinguistics
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Ellis, Rod; Loewen, Shawn; Erlam, Rosemary – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
This article reviews previous studies of the effects of implicit and explicit corrective feedback on SLA, pointing out a number of methodological problems. It then reports on a new study of the effects of these two types of corrective feedback on the acquisition of past tense -ed. In an experimental design (two experimental groups and a control…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Experimental Groups, Control Groups