Implicit / Explicit Instruction and Corrective Feedback

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This course emphasizes knowledge of implicit and explicit learning systems which are used in second and foreign language learning. Specifically, the students will learn how to promote learning processes in language classrooms and will gain hands-on experiences assessing language learners' implicit and explicit knowledge. Corrective feedback (which may be either implicit or explicit) constitutes one of the most widely researched areas within the field of Second Language Acquisition. In the class, corrective feedback will be discussed as it pertains to the main linguistic domains of syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and pragmatics.