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Kao, Chian-Wen; Reynolds, Barry Lee – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
This study scrutinizes the range and types of feedback given for word choice errors occurring in the English Taiwan Learner Corpus (ETLC), which contains Taiwanese high school students' English writings and the corrective feedback provided by L2 writing teachers. All instances of word choice error tags (n = 1,439) were extracted from the ETLC for…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation
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Reynolds, Barry Lee; Kao, Chian-Wen – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2016
In an article published in "System" Vol. 40 Andrew Sampson (2012) made several claims regarding the positive effect of "coding" or "marking" of second language writing errors and how the use of said coding can have a positive effect on the number of errors appearing in L2 writers' subsequent writings. However, upon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Kao, Chian-Wen – TESL-EJ, 2013
It has been debated whether teachers should treat students' grammatical errors in second language writing instruction (Truscott, 1996, 1999, 2010; Ferris, 1999, 2004, 2010). Several meta-analyses have investigated correction effects (e.g. Russell & Spada, 2006; Truscott, 2007). Their findings, however, have been conflicting. A recent trend to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Feedback (Response), Effect Size, Metalinguistics