Should we correct our students’ language errors? Most ESL teachers would answer this question with a resounding Yes while at the same time wondering how to meet the challenge. The collaborative project reported below was designed to provide ESL teacher trainees with an opportunity to experience the ups and downs of providing corrective feedback on writing and develop their awareness in this reg...

This quasi-experimental study was an attempt to examine the effects of two types of corrective feedback, namely recast and metalinguistic feedback on the acquisition of English regular past tenseed by Iranian EFL learners. To this end, 45 female learners of English at a low intermediate level were randomly selected as the participants of this study and were assigned into two experimental groups...

Recommender systems have explored a range of implicit feedback approaches to capture users’ current interests and preferences without intervention of users’ work. However, the problem of implicit feedback elicit negative feedback, because users mainly target information they want. Therefore, there have been few studies to test how effective negative implicit feedback is to personalize informati...

Developers often need to use appropriate APIs program efficiently, but it is usually a difficult task identify the exact one they from vast of candidates. To ease burden, multitude API recommendation approaches have been proposed. However, most currently available recommenders do not support effective integration users' feedback into loop. In this paper, we propose framework, BRAID (Boosting Re...

Abstract This aptitude–treatment interaction study investigated the extent to which explicit and implicit cognitive abilities are differentially related learning outcomes under two corrective feedback conditions. One hundred thirteen intermediate English learners of Spanish were randomly assigned an (recast), (explicit correction), or control group after completing tests from aptitude batteries...