A study of 243 employees of two different hospitality organizations compared the effects of managers’ giving feedback with no comments at all (favorable or unfavorable). The study found that feedback, formally known as contingent reinforcement, improves performance even when that feedback involves negative or corrective comments. Echoing previous studies, this research found a positive relation...

This study attempted to compare corrected linguistic errors in foreign language classrooms and all errors occurring in these classes to see which types of errors are more attended to by teachers in relation to their occurrence in classes. For this purpose, 69 hours of the classes of 34 teachers teaching in different language schools were recorded and the errors corrected by these teachers were ...

Corrective feedback has received significant attention in English language teaching, and its role has been highly substantial. Considering the importance of corrective feedback in EFL classes, this study aimed at finding the effects of indirect and gradual CF on Iranian EFL learners' grammatical development and their beliefs toward CF. Twenty EFL learners, meeting the c...

Written corrective feedback (WCF) has been given considerable attention in the past few decades English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing. However, studies have focused on students’ written works and examined how their writing performance change response to teachers’ comments. This paucity of data from actual is problematic. Accordingly, this study scrutinized eight secondary school reading l...

Computer assisted language learning (CALL) systems are used by people to learn a language. CALL systems have provided a number of advantages for language learning such as their ability to provide consistent and flexible corrective feedback during the learning process. This feedback is expressed as information about what is ungrammatical or unacceptable in a target language. This paper presents ...

This investigation examined the mixed effects of visual input enhancement, explicit instruction, pushed output, and corrective feedback on noticing and intake of English conjunctive adverbs. Participants included 83 intermediate EFL students enrolled in a grammar and writing course. They were assigned to a control group (n = 22), explicit instruction + pushed output + explicit corrective feedba...