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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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The Impact of Cognitive Complexity on Feedback Efficacy during Online Versus Face-to-Face Interactive Tasks
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Baralt, Melissa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
Informed by the cognition hypothesis (Robinson, 2011), recent studies indicate that more cognitively complex tasks can result in better incorporation of feedback during interaction and, as a consequence, more learning. It is not known, however, how task complexity and feedback work together in computerized environments. The present study addressed…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Spanish, Computer Mediated Communication, Feedback (Response)
Corrective Feedback and Working Memory Capacity in Interaction-Driven L2 Learning
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Goo, Jaemyung – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
The present study explores the relative efficacy of recasts over metalinguistic feedback on the learning of the English "that"-trace filter and how working memory capacity (WMC) is related to the extent to which learners can benefit from recasts and metalinguistic feedback. Fifty-four Korean English as a foreign language (EFL) learners from six…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning