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    The Effects of the Timing of Corrective Feedback on the Acquisition of a New Linguistic Structure

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    Authors
    Li, S.
    Zhu, Y.
    Ellis, Rod
    Date
    2016
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Li, S. and Zhu, Y. and Ellis, R. 2016. The Effects of the Timing of Corrective Feedback on the Acquisition of a New Linguistic Structure. Modern Language Journal. 100 (1): pp. 276-295.
    Source Title
    Modern Language Journal
    DOI
    10.1111/modl.12315
    ISSN
    0026-7902
    School
    School of Education
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    This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Li, S. and Zhu, Y. and Ellis, R. 2016. The Effects of the Timing of Corrective Feedback on the Acquisition of a New Linguistic Structure. Modern Language Journal. 100 (1): pp. 276-295, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12315 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving at http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54258
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The article reports on a study investigating the comparative effects of immediate and delayed corrective feedback in learning the English past passive construction, a linguistic structure of which the learners had little prior knowledge. A total of 120 learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) from 4 intact classes at a Chinese middle school were randomly assigned to conditions: immediate feedback, delayed feedback, task-only, and control. The 3 experimental groups attended a 2-hour treatment session where they performed 2 dictogloss (narrative) tasks in groups, each followed by a reporting phase in which they took turns telling the narrative to the class. The 2 feedback groups received either immediate or delayed corrective feedback in the form of a prompt, followed by recasts of utterances containing errors in their use of the target structure. No effect for the corrective feedback was found on elicited imitation test scores, but both the immediate and delayed feedback resulted in gains in grammaticality judgment test scores, with immediate feedback showing some advantage over delayed feedback. We interpret these results as showing that the feedback only aided the development of declarative/explicit knowledge and that the advantage found for immediate feedback was due to the learners using the feedback progressively in the production of new past passive sentences, whereas this did not occur in the delayed feedback condition.

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