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Karim, Khaled; Nassaji, Hossein – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study investigated the short-term and delayed effects of comprehensive written corrective feedback (WCF) on L2 learners' revision accuracy and new pieces of writing (i.e., the transfer effect of feedback). Three types of feedback were compared: direct feedback and two types of indirect feedback that differed in their degree of explicitness…
Descriptors: Revision (Written Composition), Transfer of Training, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Nassaji, Hossein – Language Teaching Research, 2016
The role of interactional feedback has long been of interest to both second language acquisition researchers and teachers and has continued to be the object of intensive empirical and theoretical inquiry. In this article, I provide a synthesis and analysis of recent research and developments in this area and their contributions to second language…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Environment
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Kim, Jongmin; Nassaji, Hossein – Language Teaching Research, 2018
Previous studies have shown that learner individual differences have important impacts on L2 accuracy development. The present study examines a learner variable (i.e. extraversion versus introversion) and its effects on incidental focus on form. Twenty-eight ESL students in two classes (an advanced and an upper-intermediate class) and their…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Extraversion Introversion
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Nassaji, Hossein; Tian, Jun – Language Teaching Research, 2010
Current second language (L2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in L2 classrooms. This study examined and compared the effectiveness of two types of output tasks (reconstruction cloze tasks and reconstruction editing tasks) for learning English phrasal verbs. Of interest was whether doing the tasks…
Descriptors: Verbs, Editing, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
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Nassaji, Hossein – Language Teaching Research, 2012
There is currently a substantial body of research on second language (L2) learning and this body of knowledge is constantly growing. There are also many attempts in most teacher education programs around the world to inform practicing and prospective L2 teachers about second language acquisition (SLA) research and its findings. However, an…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Teaching Experience
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Nassaji, Hossein; Cumming, Alister – Language Teaching Research, 2000
Using a case study account of features of the zone of proximal development in language teaching and learning, this study analyzed 95 exchanges in interactive dialogue journals written over 10 months between a 6-year-old Farsi speaker beginning to learn English from his Canadian teacher. Suggests the value of analyzing language learning and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dialog Journals, English (Second Language), Journal Writing