Language Testing in Asia

Table 6 Descriptive statistics for the narrative writing task and text summary

From: Assessing the effect of focused direct and focused indirect written corrective feedback on explicit and implicit knowledge of language learners

Treatment	n	Pretest		Posttest 1		Posttest 2
WCF	n	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
Focused direct	27	39.18	4.29	70.33	12.87	57.59	12.66
Focused indirect	29	40.86	5.30	48.24	15.56	35.48	11.76
Control	31	37.70	5.58	22.87	9.88	16.41	7.47
Total	87	39.21	5.23	46.05	23.31	35.55	19.93

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