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Fine‐tuning Corrective Feedback
Author(s) -
Han ZhaoHong
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2001.tb02105.x
Subject(s) - corrective feedback , context (archaeology) , process (computing) , interlanguage , computer science , fine tuning , argument (complex analysis) , norwegian , restructuring , psychology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , mathematics education , programming language , paleontology , philosophy , physics , biochemistry , chemistry , finance , quantum mechanics , economics , biology
This paper explores the notion of “fine‐tuning” in connection with the corrective feedback process. The underlying argument is that the absence of fine‐tuning can be a potent source of ineffective feedback. Fine‐tuning is herein defined as a process whereby the provider of corrective feedback tunes in to the causal factors of an error and successfully brings the learner's attention to the learning problem. A longitudinal case study, conducted in the context of Norwegian as a second language, is presented to show how fine‐tuning and lack thereof in the provision of written corrective feedback differentially affects an L2 learner's restructuring of an interlanguage construction.