The Effect of Focused versus Unfocused Corrective Feedback on Developing Grammatical Accuracy of Iranian Efl Learners' Written Performance within Different Gender Groups

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Author	Araghi, Seyed Mahdi Sahebkheir, Farnaz Azad, Islamic
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	The extent to which learners benefit from written corrective feedback (CF) has been debated since Truscott (1996) claimed that it is both ineffective and harmful and should therefore be abandoned. The aim of this study is to investigate whether focused CF and unfocused CF can cause any differential effects on the accurate use of the simple past tense between female and male EFL learners. The statistical analysis indicates that the focused group does better than both unfocused and control groups in terms of the accurate use of English simple paste tense. Therefore, these results suggest that focused CF promotes learners' grammatical accuracy in second language (L2) writing more effectively than unfocused CF. Furthermore, the findings show that gender does not cause a significant difference over effectiveness of focused and unfocused CF.
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Language	English
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