The Effectiveness of Corrective Feedback and the Role of Individual Differences in Language Learning

As an issue of controversy, corrective or negative feedback has been a much debated and investigated topic in theory and research on second-language acquisition. This book contributes to the ongoing discussion by reporting on a classroom study which examined the effects of two corrective feedback types – recasts and clarification requests – on the acquisition of the French verb forms passé composé and imparfait . The study also looked at the role of individual differences in analytic ability, wo