Effects of Different Types of Corrective Feedback on Receptive Skills in a Second Language: A Speech Perception Training Study
This research was supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant (410‐2011‐0671) awarded to Roy Lyster. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the joint meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics held in Toronto, ON, in March 2015, and at the Second Language Research Forum held in Atlanta, GA, in October 2015. We sincerely thank all participants and extend our gratitude to the anonymous reviewers as well as Editor Pavel Trofimovich and Associate Editor Emma Marsden for providing useful feedback on earlier drafts. We are also grateful to the following research assistants, who contributed at various phases of this study: Benjamin Gormley, James Mutch, and Sunyoung Park.
Abstract
This study investigated the effects of different types of corrective feedback (CF) provided during second language (L2) speech perception training. One hundred Korean learners of L2 English, randomly assigned to five groups (n = 20 per group), participated in eight computer‐assisted perception training sessions targeting two minimal pairs of English vowels. Four treatment groups each received a different type of CF; three groups received one of three types of auditory CF and a fourth group received a visual type of CF; the control group did not receive CF. Results of pretests, immediate posttests, and delayed posttests showed that, in comparison to the control group, the groups that received auditory CF improved significantly in trained over untrained words, whereas the group that received visual CF fared less well. These results are discussed in terms of the benefits of auditory CF types, especially CF combining target and nontarget forms.
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