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Investigating How Generation 1.5 Students Notice And Understand Direct Written Corrective Feedback (Wcf), Melissa Bustamante
Investigating How Generation 1.5 Students Notice And Understand Direct Written Corrective Feedback (Wcf), Melissa Bustamante
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The following research focuses on an underrepresented and understudied population in academia, Generation 1.5. Generation 1.5 encompasses a group of individuals who neither fit the categories of first-generation nor second-generation students and often feel caught between two cultures, the American culture and their family’s native culture (Serventy and Allen 1; Goldschmidt and Miller 11). These individuals are neither fully proficient in their L1 or L2 and consequently, share characteristics of L1 and traditional L2 writers (Singhal 2; Ferris 311). This research study examines how university Generation 1.5 students notice and understand direct Written Corrective Feedback (WCF) on treatable and untreatable …