since the emergence of the process-oriented approach in second language writing instruction, the issues of writing instruction have been predominantly concerned with what and how error feedback should be given to the students’ writing. the present study investigated the effect of explicit corrective feedback on writing accuracy of iranian intermediate efl learners (n = 44) in hamedan islamic az...

The TREC-2001 Web track evaluation experiments at the Justsystem site are described with a focus on the “aboutness” based approach in text retrieval. In the web ad hoc task, our TREC-9 approach is adopted again, combining both pseudo-relevance feedback and reference database feedback but the setting is calibrated for an early precision preferred search. For the entry page finding task, we combi...

In HARD track of HARD 2005, we classify the 50 queries into 7 categories and make use of 3 kinds of feedback sources in various tasks. We find that the different kinds of queries perform differently in feedback tasks and the “CASE “ and “EVENT” queries are more sensitive to the feedback source. We also explore the internal structure of corpus and try to estimate the distribution of relevant doc...

This paper presents two new corpus-based studies of feedback in the domain of teaching Spanish as a foreign language, concentrating on the type and frequency of different feedback moves, as well as what happens in the moves that follow the feedback. In particular, as well as looking at positive feedback, it concentrates on two general kinds of negative feedback strategies: (1) Giving-Answer Str...

Modern social media relies on high quality user generated writing such as reviews, explanations, and answers. In contrast to standard validation to provide feedback for structured inputs (e.g., dates, email addresses), it is difficult to provide timely, high quality, customized feedback for freeform text input. While existing solutions based on crowdsourced feedback (e.g., upvotes and comments)...

This study is intended to decrease learners' plagiaristic behaviour in online assignments by providing automated feedback based on text mining analysis. Document similarity analysis was done at the middle and end of the semester on 4268 reflection texts (max. 500 characters) written by the participating university students (N 1⁄4 59) about concepts which they had learnt in the computer science ...

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of direct and indirect correctivefeedback on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ speaking accuracy. This present research aimedto investigate the differential impact of recast and metalinguistic feedback on speakingperformance of EFL learners. To do so, After administering a Nelson test to have ahomogeneous sample a total number of ...

The present study investigated differential effect of two types of feedback namely, computer-mediated and metalinguistic, on Iranian EFL learners’ writing accuracy. To this end, based on Nelson Proficiency Test (300 A), 69 Iranian advanced EFL learners, including 45 males and 24 females, aged between 17 and 24, learning English in language institutes in Salmas, were selected randomly out of the...

The present study was conducted to further improve the practice of written corrective feedback by integrating the two known feedback types (i.e. direct corrective feedback and metalinguistic explanation). With this aim, a sample of sixty-nine high-intermediate Iranian EFL learners was assigned into different feedback groups. While the first and second groups received direct and metalinguistic e...