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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Replying to @langdreamer
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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Replying to @Tellez2u
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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Replying to @langdreamer @Tellez2u
This is not about demonising errors. Literature review on corrective feedback https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/02c5/86b83f74422b736f8ebc2e9cea7a9f1c168c.pdf …
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I'll read that. The "demonising" thing is because some people get defensive when talking about errors, so I was just clarifying that for Karen.
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