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15 - Corrective Feedback Timing and Second Language Grammatical Development: Research, Theory, and Practice

from Part IV - Feedback Provider, Feedback Intensity, and Feedback Timing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2021

By
Paul Gregory Quinn
Edited by
Hossein Nassaji  and
Eva Kartchava
Hossein Nassaji
Affiliation:
University of Victoria, British Columbia
Eva Kartchava
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa
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Summary

This chapter summarizes research on the timing of written and oral corrective feedback (CF) on L2 grammatical errors. A careful analysis of a comprehensive array of CF timing studies indicates that there are learning benefits from both immediate and delayed CF. The analysis also demonstrates the need for more uniform construct definitions and more rigidly designed studies in the area of CF timing research. The chapter then explains several theoretical proposals about how immediate and delayed CF facilitate L2 development. These proposed explanations include sociocultural theory, Transfer Appropriate Processing, skill acquisition theory, and cognitive comparison via reactivation and reconsolidation. In addition, this chapter discusses the potential implications that research and theory might have for L2 pedagogy, concluding that at this juncture, the literature provides teachers with justifications for using both immediate and delayed CF. Finally, the chapter ends with recommendations about what future research might best be conducted in the area of CF timing.

Keywords

corrective feedback timingimmediate corrective feedbackdelayed corrective feedbackoral corrective feedbackwritten corrective feedbackcognitive processes in corrective feedbacktheoretical perspectives on corrective feedbackcorrective feedback research methodologyinstructed second language acquisition
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The Cambridge Handbook of Corrective Feedback in Second Language Learning and Teaching , pp. 322 - 340
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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