Article published in:
Technology-mediated feedback and instruction
Edited by Hossein Nassaji and Eva Kartchava
[ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 170:2] 2019
► pp. 204–227

The interaction between inhibitory control and corrective feedback timing

| Indiana University
| Georgetown University

This article reports a study investigating the role of inhibitory control in the acquisition of Spanish noun-adjective gender agreement under different feedback timing conditions. Forty-three Spanish learners completed a communicative task through synchronous computer-mediated communication. The immediate group received reformulations immediately after their errors, whereas the delayed group received reformulations at the end of the task. The control group did not receive any feedback. Learners’ knowledge of the target form was assessed using oral production and grammaticality judgment tests at three different times: once before the treatment, once immediately after the treatment, and once ten days after the treatment. Inhibitory control was measured with the Flanker test. Results did not show a statistically significant interaction between inhibitory control and feedback timing group on either outcome measure even though the correlations between learners’ gains and inhibitory control were different across groups.

Keywords: inhibitory control, aptitude-treatment interaction, corrective feedback, feedback timing, computer-mediated communication
Article outline
  • Background
    • Synchronous computer-mediated communication and feedback
    • Feedback timing in SCMC
    • Inhibitory control
    • Present study
  • Method
    • Participants
    • Target structure
    • Treatment task
    • Feedback treatment
    • Language measures
    • Eriksen Flanker task
    • Procedure
  • Results
  • Discussion and conclusion
  • References
Published online: 04 September 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.19010.yil
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