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Yang, Yingli; Lyster, Roy – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
Conducted in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms at the university level in China, this quasi-experimental study compared the effects of three different corrective feedback treatments on 72 Chinese learners' use of regular and irregular English past tense. Three classes were randomly assigned to a prompt group, a recast group, or a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Martin, Anne V. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1981
Summarizes a study of advanced ESL university students from eight first-language backgrounds and discusses the proficiency differences found between several groups in processing two types of information patterns in written English. Suggests possible variables in cognitive strategies and skills related to the students' different cultural/linguistic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)