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3 - Cognitive Theoretical Perspectives of Corrective Feedback

from Part I - Theoretical Perspectives on Corrective Feedback

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2021

By
Ronald P. Leow  and
Meagan Driver
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

The role of corrective feedback (CF) in the L2 learning process has for decades remained a dominant issue in the (I)SLA strands of research, albeit some overlapping between these two contexts. Indeed, there are several cognitive theoretical underpinnings cited by empirical CF studies to account for the role or lack thereof of CF in the L2 learning process, for example, the Monitor Model (Krashen, 1982), the Interaction Hypothesis (Long, 1996), the Noticing Hypothesis (Schmidt, 1990), the Output Hypothesis (Swain, 2005), Skill Acquisition Theory (DeKeyser, 2015), and the Model of the L2 learning process in ISLA (Leow, 2015), be it oral, written, or computerized or digital. This chapter (1) traces the early roots of CF, (2) presents a coarse-grained theoretical feedback processing framework to discuss the cognitive theoretical underpinnings postulated to account for the role of CF in L2 development, (3) provides a list of cognitive processes assumed to play a role during CF appropriation, and (4) reports on each theoretical underpinning followed by a commentary on their ability to account for the role of CF in L2 development.

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corrective feedbackcognitive processesCF theoretical underpinningsimplicit or explicit learningdepth of processinglevel of awareness
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The Cambridge Handbook of Corrective Feedback in Second Language Learning and Teaching , pp. 65 - 84
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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