Notes on Direct and Indirect Access to Corpora: An Exploratory Case Study Comparing Students’ Error Correction and Learning Strategy Use in L2 Learning by Hyunsook Yoon & Jung Won Jo (2014) pt3

Yoon, H., & Jo, J. W. (2014). Direct and indirect access to corpora: An exploratory case study comparing students’ error correction and learning strategy use in L2 writing. Language Learning & Technology, 18, 96-117.

Conclusion

1. Concordancing helps develop meta-/cognitive abilities as it motivates discovery learning, and finally, autonomous learning.
2. The views presented in the study is ‘tentative’ due to the “exploratory nature and small sample size of the study” (p. 112).
3. This study has pedagogical implications. Specifically, they include directions for teacher regulation of classroom environment, material use, and scaffolding.
4. Training for utilizing the concordance must be explicit.
5. The study pose itself as to have provided “preliminary understanding of EFL students’ learning processes and strategies they will likely to apply in two different uses of the corpora.