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Query Subject:	Recasts as Corrective Feedback
Author:	Yue Li
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Language Acquisition

Query:	Dear list members, I am a graduate student majoring in applied linguistics. My degree paper is on recasts, which are used by EFL teachers to reformulate students' oral errors in classroom. I don't know when was the first time the term''recasts'' in this sense appeared in literatures. My research question is whether recasts can facilitate foreign language acquisition. In the past few years, researches on recasts were increasing fast, but the results were mixed. I will conduct an experiment in on-going classrooms, but I am not sure whether or not there will be significant differences between the experimental group and the control group. To decide which teachers are appropriate for the two groups compared, I have to observe the classroom activities to find out to what degree the communicative approach of different teachers are comparable. In some literatures, researchers use Nina Spada's 'COLT: Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching Observation Scheme' as an instrument to compare. I retrieved the first chapter of this book on the web, but I couldn't find the rest. There isn't this book in my country's libraries. Any suggestions on this topic are appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards!
LL Issue:	18.1533
Date posted:	20-May-2007
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