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Two Feedback Types: Do They Make A Difference?

Hunter College New York

This study contrasts the effects of two distinct ways of respon ding to a student essay: discrete-item attention to form and holistic feedback on meaning. In examining the before- and after-essays of a linguistically diverse group of 26 college freshmen, it shows that the use of a holistic response is likely to increase a student's awareness of sentence boundaries more than the alternative. In other words, responding to content results in improvements in grammatical accu racy. General implications are also addressed.

RELC Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1, 103-110 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/003368829202300107


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