The effect of recasts and prompts on L2 accuracy has already been explored intimately in classroom settings. This study, however, investigates the moderating effect of declarative knowledge on recasts and prompts. To this purpose, 48 Iranian learners of English were assigned to four conditions: +declarative knowledge (DK) recasts, -DK recasts, +DK prompts, and -DK prompts. This assignment was made based on the performance of participants on an untimed grammaticality judgment and a metalinguistic knowledge test which were focused on simple present yes/no and wh- question forms. Learners who appeared to be familiar with the forms in focus were assigned to +recasts and +prompts while those who were unfamiliar with the forms were assigned to -recasts and -prompts groups. A story-completion task and a spot-the-difference task were performed by the participating groups to serve as the pre- and post-test of the study. During communicative interaction, the 4 groups involved received corrective feedback (CF) in accordance with the conditions they had already been assigned to. Results revealed that +DK recasts and +DK prompts groups benefited from feedback sessions more than -DK recasts and -DK prompts groups did and the presence of declarative knowledge made recasts more effective than prompts. Also the recasts group outperformed the prompts group in the absence of declarative knowledge.
목차
ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION INTERACTIONAL FEEDBACK Recasts vs. Prompts Declarative Knowledge The Study METHOD Participants Materials Procedures Measures and Results DISCUSSION Explicitness of CF and L2 Accuracy CF and Proceduralization CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY AND SUGGESTIONS FORFURTHER RESEARCH THE AUTHORS REFERENCES
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recastspromptsdeclarative knowledgeL2 accuracy
저자
Afsar Rouhi [ Payame Noor University, Tehran, IRAN ]
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