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Guo, Xinyue; Yang, Yingli – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
The present study investigated the effectiveness of recasts and prompts on the acquisition of the English third-person singular form and the mediating role of cognitive style on the effects of feedback. One hundred and seventy-five college students from four intact classes were assigned to four groups: form-focused instruction with recast…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Yeldham, Michael; Gruba, Paul – Language Teaching Research, 2016
This study examined the idiosyncratic development of second language (L2) learners in a listening strategies course. The progress of four Taiwanese EFL learners was examined longitudinally through a variety of quantitative and qualitative techniques as the learners participated in a course combining direct instruction of strategies with their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Listening Skills, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language)
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Language Teaching Research, 2015
While previous research has indicated that learners with field-dependence (FD) and field-independence (FI) cognitive styles benefit differentially from different instructional modes, previous corrective feedback studies have ignored the issue of matching error correction strategies to learners' cognitive style. To shed some light on this issue,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
Salmani-Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2005
For purposes of the present study, it was hypothesized that field (in)dependence would introduce systematic variance into Iranian EFL learners' overall and task-specific performance on task-based reading comprehension tests. 1743 freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior students all majoring in English at different Iranian universities and colleges…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Performance Factors, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests