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 The extent to which teachers’ written corrective feedback (WCF) is conducive to ESL learners’ improvement has been discussed since Truscott’s claim in 1996. The mentioned debate continues because there has been lots of contrastive research studies with different results. This paper presents the results of a 2-month study of the effectiveness of WCF to 65 low intermediate Iranian learne...

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...

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...

Abstract The extent to which teachers’ written corrective feedback (WCF) is conducive to ESL learners’ improvement has been discussed since Truscott’s claim in 1996. The mentioned debate continues because there has been lots of contrastive research studies with different results. This paper presents the results of a 2-month study of the effectiveness of WCF to 65 low intermediate Iranian learne...

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 ...