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Pelger, Susanne; Sigrell, Anders – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2016
Background: Feedback is one of the most significant factors for students' development of writing skills. For feedback to be successful, however, students and teachers need a common language--a meta-language--for discussing texts. Not least because in science education such a meta-language might contribute to improve writing training and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Writing Skills, Feedback (Response), Science Education
Deutschmann, Mats; Steinvall, Anders – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2010
This paper presents further innovative use of virtual worlds under the pilot stages of ASSIS (A Second Step in Second Life), a project funded by Umea University. One of the aims of the project is to make use of the affordances offered by Second Life in order to raise sociolinguistic language awareness among teacher trainees and other students…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Students, Sociolinguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
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Sauro, Shannon – Language Learning & Technology, 2009
This paper reports on a study that investigated the impact of two types of computer-mediated corrective feedback on the development of adult learners' L2 knowledge: (1) corrective feedback that reformulates the error in the form of recasts, and (2) corrective feedback that supplies the learner with metalinguistic information about the nature of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning