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17 - Corrective Feedback and the Development of Second Language Grammar

from Part V - Corrective Feedback and Language Skills

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2021

By
Helen Basturkmen  and
Mengxia Fu
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 reviews themes in research into the effectiveness of oral corrective feedback, typically provided by language teachers, on L2 grammatical development. It synthesizes research evidence for the effects of oral corrective feedback on learners’ development of grammar and the relative efficacy of different corrective feedback strategies, such as output-prompting and input-providing. Further themes concern the effectiveness of oral corrective feedback on salient and non-salient grammatical features and in relation to learners’ varying levels of knowledge of the targeted features. Even though most research in this area concerns the development of accuracy, the chapter includes a review of the considerably smaller body of literature that offers insights into the potential value of oral corrective feedback on the development of fluency. The chapter reviews the different kinds of oral and written tests that have been used in research to gauge grammar learning, some of which teachers may wish to consider adopting to assess their learners. Based on the cumulative evidence from research, we make suggestions for classroom teachers, although we recognize that teachers’ decisions about the provision of oral corrective feedback are often based on multiple factors, including affective factors and teaching objectives.

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Oral feedbackL2 grammarfeedback strategiesaccuracyfluencysaliencyknowledge levelstest types
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The Cambridge Handbook of Corrective Feedback in Second Language Learning and Teaching , pp. 367 - 386
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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