Publications

Publication details [#41512]

Nassaji, Hossein and Merrill Swain. 2000. A Vygotskian Perspective on Corrective Feedback in L2: The Effect of Random Versus Negotiated Help on the Learning of English Articles. Language Awareness 9 (1) : 34–51.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

error | feedback | second language acquisition | writing

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study investigates whether negotiated help, provided within the learner's zone of proximal development, is more efficient than randomly provided help, irrespective of the learner's zone of proximal development. The example illustrates how two Korean learners of English acquire English writing skills.