On written corrective feedback in L2 writing

English Language Teaching

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 155-168

  Shao, Xu ^a,b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QINGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Accuracy; L2 writing; Second language acquisition; Written corrective feedback

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922832947     PISSN: 19164742     EISSN: 19164750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/elt.v8n3p155     Document Type: Article

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