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Huang, Xiaoyu; Liang, Xueying; Dracopoulos, Effie – English Language Teaching, 2011
Up to now, most researchers have been paying attention to the negative transfer of mother tongue to second language writing. Few studies, if any, have touched upon the positive transfer. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the positive transfer of Chinese to 26 first-year university students' English writing holistically and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Chen, Xiaoqing – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Recasts are one type of corrective feedback that reformulates all or part of a learner's erroneous utterance during communicative interaction without changing the meaning. Categorized as implicit and input-providing corrective feedback, recasts have become the focus of debate in the area of interaction research in recent years. The debate…
Descriptors: Asians, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Memory