The Role of Error Type and Working Memory in Written Corrective Feedback Effectiveness on First-Language Self Error-Correction

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Written Communication Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI:10.1177/0741088320986554

Mohammad Nowbakht, T. Olive

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Abstract

This study examined the role of error-type and working memory (WM) in the effectiveness of direct-metalinguistic and indirect written corrective feedback (WCF) on self error-correction in first-language writing. Fifty-one French first-year psychology students volunteered to participate in the experiment. They carried out a first-language error-correction task after receiving WCF on typographical, orthographic, grammatical, and semantic errors. Results indicated that error-type affected the efficacy of WCF. In both groups, typographical error-correction was performed better than the others; orthographic and grammatical error-correction were not different, but both were corrected more frequently than semantic errors. Between-group comparisons showed no difference between the two groups in correcting typographical, orthographic, and grammatical errors, while semantic error-correction was performed significantly better for the direct group. Results revealed that WM was not involved in correcting typographical, orthographic, and grammatical errors in both groups. It did, however, predict semantic error-correction only in response to direct-metalinguistic WCF. In addition, the processing component of WM was predictive of semantic error-correction in the direct WCF group. These findings suggest that error-type mediates the effectiveness of WCF on written error-correction at the monitoring stage of writing, while WM does not associate with all WCF types efficacy at this stage.

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错误类型和工作记忆在第一语言自我纠错书面纠正反馈效果中的作用

本研究考察了错误类型和工作记忆（WM）在直接元语言和间接书面纠正反馈（WCF）对第一语言写作中自我纠错的有效性中的作用。51名法国心理学一年级学生自愿参加了这项实验。他们在收到关于印刷、拼写、语法和语义错误的WCF后，进行了第一次语言纠错任务。结果表明，错误类型影响WCF的疗效。在这两组中，排印错误校正的表现都比其他组好；拼写错误和语法错误的纠正没有什么不同，但两者的纠正频率都高于语义错误。组间比较显示，两组在纠正印刷、拼写和语法错误方面没有差异，而直接组的语义错误纠正效果明显更好。结果显示，WM在两组中都没有参与纠正印刷、拼写和语法错误。然而，它确实预测了语义纠错只是对直接元语言学WCF的反应。此外，在直接WCF组中，WM的处理成分可以预测语义纠错。这些发现表明，在写作的监测阶段，错误类型介导了WCF在书面纠错方面的有效性，而WM在这个阶段并不与所有WCF类型的有效性相关。

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Written Communication COMMUNICATION-

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3.90

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15.80%

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期刊介绍： Written Communication is an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes theory and research in writing from fields including anthropology, English, education, history, journalism, linguistics, psychology, and rhetoric. Among topics of interest are the nature of writing ability; the assessment of writing; the impact of technology on writing (and the impact of writing on technology); the social and political consequences of writing and writing instruction; nonacademic writing; literacy (including workplace and emergent literacy and the effects of classroom processes on literacy development); the social construction of knowledge; the nature of writing in disciplinary and professional domains.