Truscott (1999) says that students are most aware of their metalinguistic knowledge, which is easily affected by correction but has very limited relation to language usage. Easy for learners to believe that a correction has helped them when in fact it had no effect on performance
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There is no perfect language. What some refer to as a mistake is one person’s choice and identity. Honor all language repertoires.
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Many mistakes are definitely not by choice. Language is a convention and we need to learn that convention communicate. No need to demonize mistakes as they're inevitable if you are not there yet, but we should also develop methods that result in high communication ability.
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But Truscott would be in a minority on correction in 2019, wouldn’t he? The balance of research now favours corrective feedback.
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I have to read more in this area, but my sense is given all the conditions El Tatawy concludes have to be met for correction to be effective, if these aren't met in most studies, analyses such as I think Truscott's work might thus appear to show correction is simply ineffective.
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