What's the difference between an error and a mistake?
Most ESL students don't have "emicity," or the ability to prioritize which errors are most important to correct to make sure their ideas get across to the writer. This means that every mark on a ESL student's page seems just as important as the others. With this in mind, instructor feedback has to focus on not marking every error, but the pattern errors that recur, that a student can fix with instruction, and that interfere the most with understanding the content of the paper.
The goal behind this feedback is to help students identify their individual pattern errors and teaching the student how to self-correct these errors on their own. (Ferris, 2013).
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