Understanding linguistic, individual and contextual factors in oral feedback research: A review of empirical studies in L2 classrooms

Educational Research Review

Volumn 24, Issue , 2018, Pages 181-192

  Yu, Shulin ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Teo, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Contextual factors; Individual factors; Linguistic factors; Oral feedback; Second language (L2) education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048725499     PISSN: 1747938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2018.06.001     Document Type: Review

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