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- Title
Effects of Recasts and Elicitations in Dyadic Interaction and the Role of Feedback Explicitness.
- Authors
Nassaji, Hossein
- Abstract
The present study investigated the effects of two categories of interactional feedback—recasts and elicitations—on learning linguistic forms that arose incidentally in dyadic interaction. The study also identified implicit and explicit forms of each feedback type and examined their subsequent effects immediately after interaction and after 2 weeks. Data came from 42 adult English as a second language learners who participated in task-based interaction with two native- speaker English language teachers and received various forms of recasts and elicitations on their nontargetlike output. The effects of feedback were measured by means of learner-specific preinteraction scenario descriptions and immediate and delayed postinteraction error identification/correction tasks. The results showed a higher degree of immediate postinteraction correction for recasts than for elicitations. The results also showed that in both cases the more explicit forms of each feedback type led to higher rates of immediate and delayed postinteraction correction than the implicit forms. However, the effects of explicitness were more pronounced for recasts than for elicitations. These latter findings suggest that although both recasts and elicitations may be beneficial for second language learning, their effectiveness might be closely, but differentially, related to their degree of explicitness.
- Subjects
DYADS; SMALL groups; DYADIC communication; PSYCHOLOGICAL feedback; REINFORCEMENT (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY of learning
- Publication
Language Learning, 2009, Vol 59, Issue 2, p411
- ISSN
0023-8333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00511.x