The Effectiveness of Corrective Feedback and the Role of Individual Differences in Language Learning: A Classroom Study

ISBN-13: 9783631625989 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 192 str.

Nadia Mifka Profozic

Opis

As an issue of controversy, corrective or negative feedback has been a much debated and investigated topic in theory and research on second-language acquisition. This book contributes to the ongoing discussion by reporting on a classroom study which examined the effects of two corrective feedback types recasts and clarification requests on the acquisition of the French verb forms passe compose and imparfait. The study also looked at the role of individual differences in analytic ability, working memory and anxiety in predicting the learning gains. This research makes an original contribution by investigating the types of corrective feedback that have not previously been compared for French verb forms, by targeting high school learners, by eliciting both oral and written language production and by including tests of three factors of individual differences."

Spis treści

Contents: Classroom research - Corrective feedback - Recasts vs. clarification requests - Experimental research - Language learning - Cognitive and affective individual difference factors - Analytic ability - Working memory - Anxiety.

O autorze

Nadia Mifka Profozic teaches Second-language acquisition and English language teaching methodology at the University of Zadar (Croatia). She holds a PhD and a MTESOL from the University of Auckland. A former journalist and a language teacher, she has taught English as a foreign language, English as a second language and French in Croatia and New Zealand.