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6 - Does Error Feedback Help L2 Writers?

Latest Evidence on the Efficacy of Written Corrective Feedback

from Section 2: - Shaping Feedback: Delivery and Focus Dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2019

By
Dana Ferris  and
Kendon Kurzer
Edited by
Ken Hyland  and
Fiona Hyland
Ken Hyland
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
Fiona Hyland
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
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Feedback in Second Language Writing
Contexts and Issues
 , pp. 106 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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