Title of article :
Effects of Immediate and Delayed Written Corrective Feedback in the Form of Recasts on the Accuracy of the English Past Tense
Author/Authors :
Salajegheh, Soory Islamic Azad University Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran , Khomeijani Farahani, Ali Akbar University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran , Shahabi, Hassan Islamic Azad University Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran
Abstract :
Thepurposeofthisstudywastoinvestigatetheroleofim-mediateanddelayedimplicitcorrectivefeedbackinlanguagelearners’structureaccuracyinwriting.Forthispurpose,90IranianEnglishasaforeignlanguage(EFL)learnerswereassignedintothreegroups:imme-diateimplicitfeedback,delayedimplicitfeedback,andacontrolcondi-tionwithnofeedback.Whereasintheimmediatefeedbackcondition,theteacherprovidedlearnerswithrecastsontheirerrorsimmediatelyaftertheirwritingtaskcompletion,inthedelayedcondition,learnersre-ceivedthecorrectivefeedbacktwodaysaftertheirtaskcompletion.Re-sultsindicatedthattheimmediatefeedbackwassignificantlybetter thanthedelayedfeedbackandcontrolconditionintheimmediatepost-test.However,inthedelayedpost-test,theimmediatefeedbackwasnotdifferentfromthedelayedcondition,yetitwasstillsuperiortothecon-trolgroup.Implicationsofthesefindingsarediscussedandsuggestiontoextendthisareaofinquiryarepresented.
Keywords :
Corrective feedback , implicit , recast , immediate feedback , delayed feedback
Journal title :
Journal of Studies in Learning and Teaching English
