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Table 2 Session 1: Data extract with frequency of coded feedback and themes for AR

From: Investigating metalinguistic written corrective feedback focused on EFL learners’ discourse markers accuracy in mobile-mediated context

Example data extract

Coded Feedback

f

Themes

f

I have to say that there is no world without plants. That’s for us anyway. One might think the most important function of trees and plants is to produce oxygen. That is not the case. However, the Oxygen provided by plants is vital to insurance of our lives that is only one part of a very complicated equation. What plants do underneath the ground is extremely important. And their function is creating water canals. Plants and trees have roots underground. These roots join and create a web that enforces soil structure and holds the soil together like glue. Without them water runs free and spreads on the ground to be evaporated fast before absorption by the ground. Roots guide the water flow and so the water goes deeper and so streams appear and those turn into rivers that are the very foundations of our civilizations. When the plants and trees are gone, the earth will change drastically. The form of the soil changes and soon come wild sandstorms.

ADD

1

Additive

10

Adversative

1

Causal

1

Temporal

2