Corrective Feedback, Individual Differences and Second Language Learning

✍ Scribed by Younghee Sheen

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands;Springer
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Series: Educational Linguistics 13
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores current thinking about the role of corrective feedback in language learning and teaching. Corrective feedback is a topic that is of relevance to both theories of second language learning and language pedagogy.

Younghee Sheen, an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the American University in Washington D.C., offers a new perspective by reviewing a wide body of research on both oral and written corrective feedback and its contribution to second language acquisition. She also reports the results of her own study, pointing to the need to examine how individual factors such as anxiety and language aptitude mediate learners’ ability to benefit from the oral and written feedback they receive.

This book is an important resource for students and scholars of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. It will also be of interest to language teachers and teacher educators wanting to deepen their understanding of error correction strategies in the classroom.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Introduction (Younghee Sheen)....Pages 1-18
Theoretical Perspectives on Corrective Feedback (Younghee Sheen)....Pages 19-38
Pedagogical Perspectives on Corrective Feedback (Younghee Sheen)....Pages 39-51
Oral Corrective Feedback Research (Younghee Sheen)....Pages 53-89
Written Corrective Feedback Research (Younghee Sheen)....Pages 91-111
Comparing Oral and Written Corrective Feedback (Younghee Sheen)....Pages 113-127
Individual Differences and Corrective Feedback (Younghee Sheen)....Pages 129-158
Conclusion (Younghee Sheen)....Pages 159-175
Back Matter ....Pages 177-199

✦ Subjects

Education; Learning and Instruction; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation; Applied Linguistics; Language Education