An indication to the learner that his/her use of the target language is incorrect is called

• A. Corrective Feedback
• B. Corpus Linguistics
• C. Correlation
• D. Counterbalance Hypothesis

Answer: (A)

This concept is about signaling to the learner that a produced form in the target language is not correct. Corrective feedback is the information given to draw attention to an error in language form and to guide the learner toward the correct usage. It can appear as explicit correction (directly stating the right form), reformulations, prompts, or elicitation that encourages self-correction. The core idea is that the feedback focuses on accuracy and helps the learner notice and repair gaps in their interlanguage, promoting future accuracy.

The other terms point to different ideas: corpus linguistics involves studying language through large text corpora; correlation is a statistical relation between variables; the counterbalance hypothesis is a theoretical idea about balancing factors in learning, not about providing error-focused feedback to a learner.