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Investigating Novice EFL Writing Teachers' Beliefs and Practices Concerning Written Corrective Feedback across Contexts: A Case Study from a Complexity Theory Perspective
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Chen, Wenting – Language Awareness, 2023
While previous research has identified misalignment of L2 teachers' beliefs and practices on written corrective feedback (WCF), much remains to be known about whether and how writing teachers' beliefs may vary across contexts and evolve over time, as well as the extent to which their beliefs are manifested in their practice. To address this issue,…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning
A Cross-Cultural Comparison in Pedagogical Beliefs about Oral Corrective Feedback: The Case of English Language Teachers in China versus the U.S.
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Mahalingappa, Laura; Polat, Nihat; Wang, Rui – Language Awareness, 2022
Oral corrective feedback (OCF) has been a trending topic in additional language education research in the last three decades. In light of current foci on socio-cultural particularities and calls for comparative work on international teacher education, there is increasing need for explorations of teachers' beliefs about OCF in different settings.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cross Cultural Studies, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Incidental Corrective Feedback Provision for Formulaic vs. Non-Formulaic Errors: EFL Teachers' Beliefs and Practices
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Gholami, Leila – Language Awareness, 2022
Research on corrective feedback (CF) and language teachers' beliefs and practices on the provision of CF has been mainly limited to learners' non-target-like use of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling (non-formulaic forms). Consequently, learners' non-target-like use of formulaic sequences, that is, collocations, idioms, lexical…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, Teacher Attitudes, Figurative Language
Focus-on-Form through Peer Feedback in a Spanish-American Telecollaborative Exchange
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Lee, Lina – Language Awareness, 2011
Using a reactive approach to focus-on-form, this study explored the types of feedback and strategies that L2 learners used to draw attention to linguistic problems in a Spanish-American telecollaborative exchange. Data from the readily available transcripts of online postings were utilised and analysed to report the findings. The results showed…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Grammar, Telecommunications, Error Correction
Error Correction: Students' versus Teachers' Perceptions
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Lasagabaster, David; Sierra, Juan Manuel – Language Awareness, 2005
Few issues in second language teaching have generated as much controversy as that of error correction. In fact, one of the most discouraging experiences of L2 teachers is correcting errors especially those that recur in their students' production. A possible explanation may be the mismatch between what teachers and students consider to be…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Experience, Student Attitudes
Language Awareness in Non-Native Writers: Metalinguistic Judgments of Need for Revision.
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Walters, Joel; Wolf, Yuval – Language Awareness, 1996
Subjects (n=93) participated in an investigation of how the number of errors from different linguistic sources affects evaluative judgments about the need for revision in a non-native language. Results of the participation of non-native and native writers of English as well as of English as a foreign language teachers show that lexical errors have…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)