The effects of focused and unfocused written corrective feedback in an English as a foreign language context

System

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 353-371

  Ellis, Rod ^a,b   Sheen, Younghee ^c   Murakami, Mihoko ^d   Takashima, Hide ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SEIJOH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Focused unfocused feedback; Grammar; L2 acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949122416     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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