Salience of Feedback on Error and Its Effect on EFL Writing Quality.

Robb, Thomas; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ334476

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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Salience of Feedback on Error and Its Effect on EFL Writing Quality.

Robb, Thomas; And Others

TESOL Quarterly, v20 n1 p83-95 Mar 1986

Reports on a study which investigated the relative merits of indirect and direct feedback on errors in the written work of English-as-a-second-language writers by comparing four types of error treatment, each of which provided the writers with progressively less salient information for making revisions in their compositions. (SED)

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Feedback, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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