Svetlana Koltovskaia , Santosh Mahapatra - Much of the research on effectiveness written corrective feedback (WCF) scope and strategies has been (quasi-)experimental, generating results peripherally related to authentic classroom contexts.

The role of written corrective feedback (WCF) in the process of acquiring a second language (L2) has been an issue of considerable controversies over past decades. This article intends to provide a critical review of the increasing number of WCF studies thus far and to inspire new perspectives for future research. It starts by briefly tracing the theoretical positions on the role of WCF in L2 i...

ABSTRACTAlthough studies on Written Corrective Feedback (WCF, hereafter) have been increasingly prevalent in the last few years, inquiries how advisory students perceive lecturers’ feedback their writing tasks likely scarce, especially Indonesian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) contexts. This study examines students’ perception and evaluation of WCF response to errors inaccuracies academic...

An underexplored question, and one with potentially far-reaching implications for the practice of written corrective feedback (WCF), is whether to mark a wide range errors (comprehensive feedback) or focus on few error types (focused in learners’ L2 writing. Despite limited evidence, it argued that comprehensive WCF unsystematic, inconsistent, confusing, intimidating; can cognitively affectivel...

The present study explores the effect of providing different types of written corrective feedback (WCF) on 79 Iranian EFL learners’ writings over time through a pre-test, immediate post-test and delayed post-test. In this way, the study first aims to investigate the extent to which different types of WCF result in improved accuracy in writing over a period of two months, and then maintain...

With the latest paradigm shift in SLA from Cognitivism to Sociocultural Theory (SCT), more studies are carried out to investigate the efficacy of Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) through a social and cultural lens. A more recent offspring of SCT is Activity Theory which provides an explanatory framework for scrutinizing an activity in a social setting. The present study aimed at investigating ...

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...

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...

This study compares the processing of three different types written corrective feedback (WCF) by heritage language (HL), second (L2), and third (L3) learners who wrote revised short essays received a type WCF for each essay (i.e., direct, coding, or underlining). Comparison pre- post-feedback texts analysis think-alouds served as basis determining whether one promoted higher depth (DoP) this wa...

since the emergence of the process-oriented approach to second language writing instruction two main questions have been what and how error feedback should be given to the students. the question of whether teachers should provide feedback on grammar in the writing assignments of english as a foreign language students, and if so how, has been a matter of considerable debate in the field of secon...