Volume 24 Number 3, October 2020 High school writing teacher feedback on word choice errors

High school writing teacher feedback on word choice errors

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Volume 24 Number 3, October 2020
contributor.author:
Kao, Chian-Wen Reynolds, Barry Lee
contributor.editor:
Greg Kessler
date.accessioned:
2020-10-09T17:53:13Z
date.available:
2020-10-09T17:53:13Z
date.issued:
2020-10-15
description.abstract:
This study scrutinizes the range and types of feedback given for word choice errors occurring in the English Taiwan Learner Corpus (ETLC), which contains Taiwanese high school students’ English writings and the corrective feedback provided by L2 writing teachers. All instances of word choice error tags (n = 1,439) were extracted from the ETLC for analyses. Results showed L2 writing teachers provided indirect feedback more often than direct feedback, requiring students to self-correct without guidance. Furthermore, many errors tagged as word choice were grammar errors, further questioning L2 writing teachers’ understanding of word choice errors and competence to correct such errors. This study highlights the importance of raising students’ awareness to targeted lexis prior to completing L2 writing tasks. We also argue that there are benefits for L2 writing teachers to provide focused and direct word choice error feedback after the completion of such tasks.
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endingpage:
29
identifier.citation:
Kao, C.-W., & Reynolds, B. L. (2020). High school writing teacher feedback on word choice errors. Language Learning & Technology, 24(3), 19–29. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44732
identifier.issn:
1094-3501
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44732
llt.topic:
Language Teaching and Technology Forum
number:
3
publicationname:
Language Learning & Technology
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology (co-sponsored by Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, University of Texas at Austin)
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/item/10125-44732/
startingpage:
19
subject:
Writing Vocabulary Corpus
title:
High school writing teacher feedback on word choice errors
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Column
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Text
volume:
24