The main role and responsibility of second language writing teachers is to help learners to write with minimal errors. To do so, teachers need to provide students with appropriate types of feedback. In this research, the researchers examined the effect of post-text written corrective feedback on written grammatical accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. In the first phase, Nelson Profic...

the present study investigated efl teachers’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback (cf), their cf-provision practices across elementary and intermediate levels, and their beliefs-practices correspondence. to this end, the researchers conducted a semi-structured interview with the teachers and went on an overall forty-hour observation of their classrooms across both levels. the findings reveale...

This study compared four ways of responding to EFL students in writing class to study whether they resulted in different outcomes in term of student‟s errors in writing. A total of 119 intermediate level students were selected as subjects, including students from three English reading and writing classes, and some voluntary participants. The students of three English reading and writing classes...

Abstract Animals achieve agile locomotion performance with reduced control effort and energy efficiency by leveraging compliance in their muscles tendons. However, it is not known how biological controllers learn to leverage the intelligence embodied leg mechanics. Here we present a framework match patterns mechanics based on concept of short-term elasticity long-term plasticity. Inspired anima...

For decades now, questions about the role of corrective feedback in second language acquisition (SLA) have been hotly debated, spawning a great deal of theoretical and empirical research. Although the facilitative role of corrective feedback in SLA has received some empirical support, the claims regarding its impact on SLA have yet to be fully or decisively substantiated. In order to move this ...

This study attempted to systematically inspect the impact of direct and indirect corrective feedbacks on the writing ability of EFL learners when using product/process based instructions. To do so, 110 female EFL learners, between the ages of 15 and 18, were randomly assigned into four experimental groups to receive four different kinds of treatments, namely product-based instruction with direc...

Research on written corrective feedback (WCF) has received sustained interest in the field of second language acquisition and education. This viewpoint article extends theoretical conceptual discussion WCF research by introducing notions “feedback literacy” ecology”. In this article, I first review three strands research. Then, argue for need to shift focus our investigation from information (f...

This article presents a study investigating the relationship between corrective feedback and learner uptake in adult ESL classrooms. Inspired by Lyster and Ranta (1997), the present study describes and analyzes the patterns of corrective feedback and learner uptake, observed in a different context from that of Lyster and Ranta’s study. The database consists of 21 hours of interaction between th...