L2 Writing

January 25th, 2007 by Commoner ( 423 Views )

One of the most contested issues in the field of second language (L2) writing education is, put simply, whether feedback works. Using commonsense, one might answer “of course’: Teachers invest considerable time and energy conferencing with their students and making corrections to their papers, and it would seem counterintuitive to claim that all this feedback comes to naught. However, since the field of L2 writing first emerged as a serious discipline in the early 1980’s, whether this kind of feedback actually helps students make significant improvements to their writing has remained a surprisingly controversial issue. Some researchers have even claimed that “despite the published debate and several decades of research activity in this area, we are virtually at square one, as the existing research base is incomplete and inconsistent.

Arriving at a more complete answer to this question has ramifications for theoreticians interested in the role of feedback in second language development, as it will help us accurately specify the role we need to assign to feedback in the development of L2 writing skills.

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Imran
January 26th, 2007 16:52 GMT
Please Sir kindly expalain L2 writing in more detail.

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