Abstract Among a growing body of research that examined the contradictory role written corrective feedback (WCF) in development L2 writing accuracy, this study investigated possible impact focused metalinguistic WCF on discourse markers (DMs) performance an intact group 42 Iranian English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners over eight-week period. In authentic, situated, and personalized learnin...

This study investigated understanding of language ambiguity as a source of individual differences in children’s reading comprehension skill, and the role of peer metalinguistic discussion in fostering comprehension improvement. Twenty-four 7to 9-year-old children worked in pairs to discuss and resolve ambiguities in joking riddles. Their reading comprehension increased significantly more than a...

Whether type of written corrective feedback (WCF) impacts L2 learning has been investigated for decades. While many product-oriented studies report conflicting findings, the paucity adopting both a process-oriented and curricular approach (e.g., Caras, 2019) underscores call further research on: a) processing dimension writers’ engagement with WCF in this instructed setting (Manchón & Leow,...

In ‘‘Intuitions in Linguistics’’ (2006a) and Ignorance of Language (2006b) I took it to be Chomskian orthodoxy that a speaker’s metalinguistic intuitions are provided by her linguistic competence. I argued against this view in favor of the alternative that the intuitions are empirical theory-laden central-processor responses to linguistic phenomena. The concern about these linguistic intuitions...

The communicative idea is highlighted by Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), which began in the 1970s. Communication frequently hampered lexical issues; communication fails when people use wrong words. ability to communicate ultimate goal of language learning. purpose this article clarify value and necessity CLT application teaching English vocabulary adult learners. study identify how appro...

Different theories of SLA offer conflicting views of the relationship between metalinguistic task performance and oral production. We examined this relationship with respect to the possessive determiners ‘his/her’in English. Learners’ oral production was elicited using a picture description task and described according to developmental stages;a parallelframework was developed to classifylearner...