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In:Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition
Edited by Gisela Granena, Daniel O. Jackson and Yucel Yilmaz
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 3] 2016
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Corrective feedback and working memory capacity

A replication

 | Gwangju National University of Education
Published online: 23 December 2016
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https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.3.13goo
Abstract
The present study, as a conceptual replication of Goo (2012), is designed to compare recasts with metalinguistic feedback in terms of the development of the English that-trace filter and explore the role of working memory (WM) in the extent to which L2 learners benefit from the two feedback moves. Eighty-three Korean EFL learners were recruited and randomly assigned to one of three groups: recast (n = 24), metalinguistic (n = 27), and control (n = 32). Each learner carried out a series of tasks and tests: a WM span task (operation span), a dyadic intensive treatment task, oral production tests, and grammaticality judgment tests (GJTs). Results showed that metalinguistic feedback was more effective than recasts at facilitating accuracy in oral production involving the English that-trace filter, but not on the GJT measure, and that WM was not found to have mediated the effectiveness of either feedback move.
Article outline
  • 1.Background
  • 2.Present study
  • 3.Method
    • 3.1Participants
    • 3.2Linguistic Target
    • 3.3Design
    • 3.4Tasks and materials
      • 3.4.1Treatment task
      • 3.4.2Operation span task (OSPAN)
    • 3.4.3Oral production test
    • 3.4.4Grammaticality judgment test (GJT)
    • 3.5Procedure
    • 3.6Scoring
      • 3.6.1OSPAN
    • 3.6.2Oral production/grammaticality judgment
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1Grammaticality judgment
    • 4.2Oral production
  • 5.Discussion
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
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