Explicit correction improves adult L2 learners' responses on corrected suffixation items during the feedback session¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q3
Currency · newest study 1992 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Experimental subjects who received correction gave feedback-session responses that differed in favor of the experimental groups relative to comparison subjects who were never corrected. → Susanne Carroll 1992

Evidence¶

Susanne Carroll 1992¶

Susanne Carroll, Merrill Swain, and Yves Roberge. (1992). The role of feedback in adult second language acquisition: Error correction and morphological generalizations. Applied Psycholinguistics, Volume 13, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400005555

q3 · i? · causal · r?

In the experimental study, 79 adult native speakers of English learning French were individually trained on two suffixation rules; experimental subjects received correction for erroneous responses. Analyses showed "differences in favor of the experimental groups" on feedback responses. No effect size is printed.

"Analyses of feedback responses indicated differences in favor of the experimental groups, but comparisons of guessing responses between experimental and comparison groups showed no evidence of learned generalizations."

Discussion¶

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