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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Written Corrective Feedback: What Do Students and Teachers Prefer and Why?
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Amrhein, Hannah R.; Nassaji, Hossein – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2010
A growing body of research has examined the effectiveness of written corrective feedback (WCF) for L2 writing. An area that has attracted considerable attention recently is how students and teachers perceive the usefulness of WCF. Most research in this area, however, has focused on students' perspectives, while many fewer studies comparing…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Error Correction, Teacher Student Relationship
The Development of Spelling and Orthographic Knowledge in English as an L2: A Longitudinal Case Study
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Nassaji, Hossein – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2007
This longitudinal case study investigated the development of spelling and orthographic knowledge in a child ESL learner from Grade 1 through Grade 4. Misspelling data from the learner's free writings were examined for overall patterns of spelling development and the word-specific changes in the spelling of individual words. The aim was to track…
Descriptors: Spelling, Program Effectiveness, Case Studies, English (Second Language)