ABSTRACT
The efectiveness of corrective feedback (CF) in written production has been controversial in the last decades (BITCHENER y FERRIS, 2012BITCHENER, J. y FERRIS, D. (2012). Written corrective feedback in second language acquisition and writing. Nueva York: Routledge.; TRUSCOTT, 2007TRUSCOTT, J. (1996). The case against grammar correction in L2 writing classes. Language Learning, 46, pp. 327-369.; VAN BEUNINGEN, 2010VAN BEUNINGEN, C. (2010). Corrective Feedback in L2 Writing: Theoretical Perspectives, Empirical Insights, and Future Directions. IJES, vol. 10/2, pp. 1-27.). The investigation focused on experimental studies, with quantitative research, about long-term acquisition and with a restricted range of errors, but recently researchers make a call on the study of accuracy and indirect feedback (FERRIS, 2010FERRIS, D. R. (2010). Second language writing research and written corrective feedback in SLA Intersections and Practical Applications. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 32, pp. 181- 201.; STORCH, 2010STORCH, N. (2010). Critical Feedback on Written Corrective Feedback Research. IJES, vol. 10/2, pp. 29-46.). This paper presents a cases study of error detection capacity and the corrective feedback effects on text editing in Spanish speakers learners of Portuguese with different levels of proficiency. Error correction, as the capacity of error detection and form recovery, is analysed in a test without CF, a test with CF and a very short-term postest. The results show that error correction capacity improves but has no effect on a set of errors that the learners can recover but they can´t notice.
portuguese foreign language; written corrective feedback; noticing
