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Name Brett Collins
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Group Versus Individual Feedback in EFL Online Writing Assignments 

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JALT CALL

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2001/06/01

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Research was done to answer the question of whether there is a difference between individual and group feedback in relationship to homework writing assignments for the purpose of helping teachers construct germane group feedback for larger classes, with the idea that EFL error-overlap is constant, and targets for revision can be capitalized on. The assignments and both individual and group feedback were completed online, with individual feedback being directed at a minimum of one individual localized error and group feedback focusing on general errors within the group. Individual feedback was given to one classes and only group feedback was given to the other.  An eight-item ‘Feedback Questionnaire,’ written in Japanese, was used as the survey instrument and administered after a second group-only feedback homework assignment was given to both classes. The statistical differences between individual feedback and group feedback were ultimately felt not to be significant.

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