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Sheppard, Ken – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1992
The effects of two distinct ways of responding to a student essay (discrete-item attention to form and holistic feedback on meaning) were compared for a linguistically diverse group of 26 first-year college students. Findings suggest that the holistic response is likely to result in improvements in grammatical accuracy. (19 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Essays, Feedback
