Role of Recasts in Developing Appropriacy and Accuracy in Students' Performance

Abstract

The present study entitled Role of Recasts in Developing Appropriacy and Accuracy in Students' Performance intended to show the effectiveness of recasts in the second language learning especially in simulated English speaking environment. Altogether, 17 students had been selected studying at Marigold Secondary School, Tikapur, Kailali through non-random purposive sampling procedure to accomplish the research. Prior to the intervention, a set of questionnaire was prepared as a research tool to collect required information for the study. The same test item was used for pre-test and post-test. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used. Having prepared the required research tools, I started teaching at the selected school based upon the objectives of the research methodology. The total teaching periods were 25 including all five grammatical items-tense, voice, modal verbs, prepositions and tag-questions respectively and each grammatical item carried 10 marks. The findings showed that recast as an implicit negative feedback can affect students’ attempts to communicate and enhance learning the English language. Thus, recasts proved to be one of the best techniques, especially for those students with higher level of language proficiency. This thesis consists of four parts. The first chapter consists of general background, second language acquisition, classroom interaction, different types of feedback, introduction and theoretical value of recast and process of action research. Chapter two deals with the methodology, sources of data: primary and secondary sources of data, population, sampling population and sampling procedure, tools for the study, the process of data collection and limitations of the study. Chapter three basically deals with the analysis and interpretations of the data collected from the informants. Chapter four discusses the findings of the study. Some recommendations are drawn and some pedagogical implications have been made being based on the findings. In the final section of the study, the references and appendices are included.