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
Hi Steve, I read that review and checked the references and it seems still nobody has shown that corrections actually work. No studies have all of: control group, measure spontaneous language usage, show benefits of corrections even a single month later.
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I don’t know if you mean error correction of written or spoken language, but this is clearly not an easy area to study. How could one ever produce an entirely reliable study? So we resort to metastudies which (apart from Truscott) seem to show some effect for corrective feedback.
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Here is another https://scinapse.io/papers/1660961223 …
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