Teachers' Perceptions About The Effects Of Recast And Metalinguistic Feedback On Pronunciation Of Elementary Learners

This study investigated teachers' perceptions about the effects of Recast and Metalinguistic Feedback on Pronunciation of Elementary Learners. This study examined teachers' preferences for pronunciation error correction and compared the differences between them, suggesting more effective ways of treating learners' pronunciation errors in English Second Language settings. Recast and Metalinguistic Feedback are two important correction feedbacks which have great effects on language teaching and learning strategies. Therefore understanding learners` pronunciation mistakes and knowing teachers` perceptions have always been one of the highly controversial issues among language teaching experts. The purpose of this study was the preferences for pronunciation error correction among teachers. One hundred adult English Second Language teachers in seven branches of Javanan Bartar Institute participated in this survey. They were selected from adults with the same level of proficiency and all of them were teaching elementary learners. The results revealed that the teachers agreed that pronunciation error correction especially Recast is necessary for L۲ improvement. In general there were more significant differences between the teachers regarding Recast than those teachers who considered Metalinguistic Feedback

Keywords:

Recast , Metalinguistic Feedback , Pronunciation