{"pk":35934,"title":"Developing Autonomous Self-Editors: An Alternative Approach to Written Corrective Feedback","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Written corrective feedback has been a long-standing practice among second language writing instructors, yet the efficacy of this practice for long-term development of students’ writing remains uncertain. In th field of writing research, error correction in second language writing continues to be a topic of much controversy. While numerous studies have investigated the long-term effect of written corrective feedback, no consensus has been reached. Challenging the deep-rooted conviction that instructors’ correction is beneficial, this article (a) argues that the role of a writing instructor is not to serve as an editor but to help students to become autonomous self-editors of their own work, and (b) proposes an alternative approach that is designed to develop students’ self-editing skills. Through effective scaffolding and strategy training, writing instructors can develop in second language writers a habit of mind to critically read and edit their own work.","language":"eng","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"guided self-editing practice"},{"word":"self-editing strategy"},{"word":"L2 writing"},{"word":"Error Correction"},{"word":"written corrective feedback"}],"section":"Theme Section - Teaching and Learning","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r68b92k","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Undarmaa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Maamuujav","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T19:00:00+01:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/catesoljournal/article/35934/galley/26789/download/"}]}