Two Feedback Types: Do They Make a Difference?.

Sheppard, Ken

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ERIC Number: EJ462663

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1992

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Two Feedback Types: Do They Make a Difference?

Sheppard, Ken

RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, v23 n1 p103-10 Jun 1992

The effects of two distinct ways of responding to a student essay (discrete-item attention to form and holistic feedback on meaning) were compared for a linguistically diverse group of 26 first-year college students. Findings suggest that the holistic response is likely to result in improvements in grammatical accuracy. (19 references) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Essays, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Grading, Grammar, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Student Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Written Language

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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