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The Effects of Immediate and Delayed Corrective Feedback on L2 Development
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Fu, Mengxia; Li, Shaofeng – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This article reports on a study exploring the differential effects of immediate and delayed corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of the English past tense. One hundred and forty-five seventh-grade EFL learners were assigned to four groups: Immediate CF, Delayed CF, Task Only, and Control. Each experimental group performed six focused…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Dative Alternation in German-English Interlanguage
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Jäschke, Katja; Plag, Ingo – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This study investigates the role of probabilistic grammatical constraints on the dative alternation in English as a second language (ESL). It presents the results of an experiment in which the different factors that are influential in first language (L1) English are tested with advanced learners of English whose L1 is German. Second language (L2)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), German, Interlanguage, Grammar
The Effects of Textual Enhancement on the Acquisition of Two Nonparallel Grammatical Features by Spanish-Speaking Learners of Italian
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Putta, Paolo Della – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This article investigates the learning of two syntactic structures in Italian--Pre-possessive Determiner Article (PPDA) and Differential Object Marking--that each pose specific learning difficulties for Spanish-speaking learners of Italian (SSLI), resulting from the asymmetrical relationship with corresponding structures in the learners' L1…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Spanish Speaking, Italian