Abstract

Studies on focused written corrective feedback in L2 contexts report that such feedback is effective, even with learners’ use of English articles. They report that by narrowly targeting two single-rule-based functions—first-mention a/an and second-mention the—learners acquire greater mastery and control over these forms. The effects of such selective corrective feedback on learners’ understanding of the complex and opaque English article system has not yet been considered in this strand of research. This classroom-based study investigates the impact of such focused corrective feedback on learners’ remaining functional article uses. The results indicate that while the focused corrective feedback leads to increased accuracy in the simple rule-based functions of articles, the same feedback may negatively impact the remaining article functions, especially for the group that received the most explicit feedback in the form of metalinguistic explanation.

中文翻译：

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纠正反馈对英文文章的影响

摘要

对 L2 语境中重点书面纠正反馈的研究表明，这种反馈是有效的，即使学习者使用英语文章也是如此。他们报告说，通过狭窄瞄准的两个基于单一规则函数先提一/一个和第二提的——学习者对这些形式有更大的掌握和控制。这种选择性的纠正反馈对学习者理解复杂和不透明的英语文章系统的影响在这方面的研究中尚未考虑。这项基于课堂的研究调查了这种集中纠正反馈对学习者剩余的功能性文章使用的影响。结果表明，虽然集中的纠正反馈导致文章的基于规则的简单功能的准确性提高，但相同的反馈可能会对剩余的文章功能产生负面影响，特别是对于以元语言解释形式收到最明确反馈的组.