This paper reports on a study thatinvestigated Iranian EFL high school students’ perceptions of written grammar feedback to specify their reasons for preferring comprehensive or selective feedback and choosing some feedback strategies. A questionnaire was administered to 100 EFL intermediate high school students who were selected based on their scores on a proficiency test. Moreover, semi-struc...

Abstract In English as an additional language writing, error correction or feedback is most commonly referred to ‘written corrective (WCF)’. The emphasis on ‘correctness’ in ‘WCF’ suggests native-speakerist standards norms, which are controversial increasingly globalized world. this Forum article, I discuss the problems associated with WCF from a Global Englishes perspective and suggest broaden...

This study investigated how question prompts and feedback influenced knowledge acquisition and cognitive load when learning Newtonian mechanics within a web-based multimedia module. Participants were one hundred eighteen 9th grade students who were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions, forming a 2 x 2 factorial design with the presence or absence of question prompts as one f...

Background. A primary question among L2 writing instructors is how to best deliver written corrective feedback (WCF) support student learning. One promising WCF method Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback, in which provide unfocused/comprehensive using a coding system coupled with regular rounds of editing on short, in-class student-written paragraphs.
 Purpose. In this study, I explored th...

This research chiefly focused on the application of mitigation strategies and traditional form of feedback in writing development of the fifth semester University students majoring in TEFL and English Translation fields based on Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory in general and the notion of “Zone of Proximal Development” in particular. To that end, this study relied on a pre-posttest experimental...

The shift of priority in current second language teaching to boost the use of the target language for communication, the conception of error as natural product of language development that can be self-eliminated with the increase of the amount of exposure to the target language, and the existing problems with feedback provision as observed in the daily classroom practice have jointly given way ...