Abstract
Recent research has provided evidence that corrective feedback (CF) timing can play a significant role in feedback effectiveness. However, given that immediate and delayed feedback are differentially contextualized, little is known about the mediating role of learners’ field dependence/independence (FDI) cognitive style on the effectiveness of immediate and delayed prompts. To this end, the present study examined the effects of immediate and delayed prompts as well as the mediating role of learners’ FDI on the development of English articles by EFL learners. Fifty eight EFL learners were randomly assigned into two treatment conditions as well as a control group. The participants’ FDI orientation was measured through the group embedded figures test (GEFT). The treatment groups differed from each other in terms of whether the participants received prompts immediately after errors were made or at the end of the treatment task. The results obtained from post-tests and delayed post-tests showed that providing prompts immediately following learners’ errors is more effective than delaying them until the communicative activity is over. Furthermore, regression analysis revealed that the effectiveness of immediate prompts, and not delayed prompts, is significantly predicted by learners’ FDI cognitive style.
Appendix A: (A sample story used for the treatment sessions)
Once, there was a poor woman who lived in a lonely house in a village with her two lovely children, Snow and red Rose. While Rose was sociable and jolly, her sister was shy and calm. One winter evening, there was a knock at the door. When Rose opened it, she sprang back in fear. A black bear stood at the door and said “don’t be afraid, I will do you no harm. I am freezing and only want a warm place. “Please let me in”, said the bear, “I need to warm myself, I will leave your house tomorrow morning”. The mother allowed the bear to get in and sit by the fire. Soon, the girls became friendly with the bear. The bear came to the house every evening and warmed himself beside the fire. When spring came, the bear said, “Now I must go away and cannot come back for the whole summer. The bear went to the jungle to find new friends. One day, the bear saw a monkey. The monkey was eating a banana. The bear was hungry and asked the monkey if he has another banana. The monkey gave the bear a banana. The monkey asked the bear where he lived during the winter. The bear told his story to the monkey.
While the bear was telling his story, a fox that was carrying along a box came. The fox and monkey heard the bear story about the kind family. They decided to help the bear to return that woman’s kindness. So they opened the box of the fox and filled it with bananas and put a big beautiful flower on it and took it for the kind woman. They knocked at the door but unfortunately nobody opened the door. It seemed they moved to a new house. They search in the village to find the family. The saw a Shepard and asked him if he knows the family. The Shepard did not know the family. The bear became very sad. A cat saw them and wanted to help. The cat knew the family and showed them the family’s new house. When they knocked at the door, the mother opened the door and became extremely happy when she realized the animals’ kindness.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Consolidating EFL content and vocabulary learning via interactive reading
- Understanding salient trajectories and emerging profiles in the development of Chinese learners’ motivation: a growth mixture modeling approach
- Multilingual pedagogies in first versus foreign language contexts: a cross-country study of language teachers
- Classroom assessment and learning motivation: insights from secondary school EFL classrooms
- Interculturality and Islam in Indonesia’s high-school EFL classrooms
- Collaborative writing in an EFL secondary setting: the role of task complexity
- Spanish heritage speakers’ processing of lexical stress
- Effectiveness of second language collocation instruction: a meta-analysis
- Understanding the Usefulness of E-Portfolios: Linking Artefacts, Reflection, and Validation
- Syntactic prediction in L2 learners: evidence from English disjunction processing
- The cognitive construction-grammar approach to teaching the Chinese Ba construction in a foreign language classroom
- The predictive roles of enjoyment, anxiety, willingness to communicate on students’ performance in English public speaking classes
- Speaking proficiency development in EFL classrooms: measuring the differential effect of TBLT and PPP teaching approaches
- L2 textbook input and L2 written production: a case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction
- What does the processing of chunks by learners of Chinese tell us? An acceptability judgment investigation
- Comparative analysis of written corrective feedback strategies: a linear growth modeling approach
- Enjoyment in language teaching: a study into EFL teachers’ subjectivities
- Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies
- Pronunciation pedagogy in English as a foreign language teacher education programs in Vietnam
- The role of language aptitude probed within extensive instruction experience: morphosyntactic knowledge of advanced users of L2 English
- The impact of different glossing conditions on the learning of EFL single words and collocations in reading
- Patterns of motivational beliefs among high-, medium-, and low-achieving English learners in China
- The effect of linguistic choices in note-taking on academic listening performance: a pedagogical translanguaging perspective
- A latent profile analysis of Chinese EFL learners’ enjoyment and anxiety in reading and writing: associations with imaginative capacity and story continuation writing performance
- Effects of monolingual and bilingual subtitles on L2 vocabulary acquisition
- Task complexity, task repetition, and L2 writing complexity: exploring interactions in the TBLT domain
- Expansion of verb-argument construction repertoires in L2 English writing
- Immediate versus delayed prompts, field dependence and independence cognitive style and L2 development
- Aural vocabulary, orthographic vocabulary, and listening comprehension
- The use of metadiscourse by secondary-level Chinese learners of English in examination scripts: insights from a corpus-based study
- Scoping review of research methodologies across language studies with deaf and hard-of-hearing multilingual learners
- Exploring immediate and prolonged effects of collaborative writing on young learners’ texts: L2 versus FL
- Discrepancy in prosodic disambiguation strategies between Chinese EFL learners and native English speakers
- Exploring the state of research on motivation in second language learning: a review and a reliability generalization meta-analysis
- Japanese complaint responses in textbook dialogues and ordinary conversations: learning objects to expand interactional repertoires