负向反馈对中学生英语冠词习得的作用

The Impact of Negative Corrective Feedback on High School Students’ English Article Acquisition

本研究主要探讨重铸、元语言反馈和要求澄清三种修正性反馈方式对中国中学生英语冠词习得的不同作用,并检测男女生不同性别是否会对这三种反馈方式产生不同效果。本研究经过约8周的实验,结果显示,重铸和元语言反馈在即时后测和延时后测中表现显著有效性,而要求澄清的效果不明显,不接受任何反馈的控制组的前后检测结果无显著差异。与元语言反馈相比,重铸在中国中学生英语冠词学习中表现出稳定且持久的效果。本研究还表明女生对这三种负向反馈方式的效果均要好于男生。

This research explores the different effects of three types of negative feedback, namely recasting, metalinguistic feedback, and clarification request, on the acquisition of Eng- lish articles by Chinese senior school students, meanwhile, examines whether different gender would affect three types of negative feedback. This is an 8-week research, including a pre-test, eight treatment sessions, an immediate post-test, and a delayed post-test. Altogether 60 subjects are randomly assigned into the feedback group （including the recasts group, the metalinguistic feedback group ,the clarification request group） and the control group. The results shows that the effectiveness of recasts and metalinguistic feedback in both immediate and delayed post- tests,while the effect of clarification request is not significant. Compared with metalinguistic feedback, recasts has a more stable and enduring effect on Chinese senior students＇ acquisition of English articles. The result also shows a tendency that the three types of negative feedback have significant effects on girls than boys.