The comparative effect of direct written corrective feedback and metalinguistic explanation on learners' explicit and implicit knowledge of the English indefinite article

The study extends current work on written error feedback in writing in two ways. First, it examines whether it has an effect on adult ESL learners' L2 implicit and explicit knowledge. Second, the study compares the effect of one common type of feedback - direct corrective feedback (DCF) - with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shintani, N., Ellis, Rod
Format: Journal Article
Published: Ablex Publishing Corp 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54411