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Constructing a Voice in English as a Foreign Language: Identity and Engagement
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Nasrollahi Shahri, Mohammad Naseh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
Situated in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context, this study navigates the intersection of language learner identity and foreign language engagement. Specifically, drawing on the concept of voice (Canagarajah, 2013; Johnstone, 1996; Kramsch, 2003), Bakhtin's (1981) theory of language, and the notion of investment (Darvin & Norton,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Task Types and Discursive Features: Mediating Role of Meta-Talk in Focus
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Mohamadi, Zohre; Rahimpour, Massoud – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2018
Exploring opportunities by which learners can internalize new knowledge and consolidate existing knowledge has long been a point of interest in English as a foreign language research. This study investigated how meta-talk opportunities on discourse markers created by four task types including text reconstruction, dictogloss, translation and jigsaw…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Translation, Audio Equipment
The Effects of Foreign Language Anxiety on EFL Learners' Perceptions of Oral Corrective Feedback
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
The study reported in this paper explored if learners' perceptions of two types of oral corrective feedback, recasts, and metalinguistic feedback, are influenced by their foreign language anxiety in classrooms. Corrective feedback was provided to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners who were homogeneous with regard to their proficiency…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Questionnaires, Anxiety
Recasts, Metalinguistic Feedback, and Learners' Perceptions: A Case of Persian EFL Learners
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Rassaei, Ehsan; Moinzadeh, Ahmad – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
In the current study, we present the results of an experiment with 30 Persian EFL learners in which we explored the learners' perceptions of recasts and metalinguistic corrective feedback. The participant learners received either recasts or metalinguistic feedback for their errors during task-based interactions with their interlocutors and then…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Feedback (Response), Classification, Recall (Psychology)
The Effectiveness of Implicit and Explicit Error Correction on Learners' Performance
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Varnosfadrani, Azizollah Dabaghi; Basturkmen, Helen – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
The study looked at the effects of correction of learners' errors on learning of grammatical features. In particular, the manner of correction (explicit vs. implicit correction) was investigated. The study also focussed on the effectiveness of explicit and implicit correction of developmental early vs. developmental late features. Fifty-six…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Role, Grammar, Error Correction
Error Correction: Report on a Study
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Dabaghi, Azizollah – Language Learning Journal, 2006
This article reports on a study which investigated the effects of correction of learners' grammatical errors on acquisition. Specifically, it compared the effects of timing of correction (immediate versus delayed correction) and manner of correction (explicit versus implicit correction). It also investigated the relative effects of correction of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Metalinguistics, Grammar, Error Correction