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Publication details [#51925]

Pienaar, Cathy and Miriam Lephalala. 2008. An evaluation of markers' commentary on ESL students' argumentative essays in an ODL context. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 39 (1) : 66–87.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | evaluation | feedback | second language acquisition | university

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that the efficiency of markers' feedback to English Second Language (ESL) students' essays in an Open and Distance Learning (ODL) context at the University of South Africa, ought to be enhanced by paying more attention to provided assessment criteria.