THE IMPACT OF LISTENING TO THE SPEECH CORRECTED THROUGH RECAST ON THE IRAINIAN EFL LEARNER S GRAMMATICAL ACCURACY INSPEAKING

This study aimed at investigating the impact of listening to corrected speech through recast onthe grammatical accuracy in the speaking skill of Iranian Intermediate EFL learners. Theparticipants included 60 EFL students between the ages of 10 to15 years old that were selectedfrom Academy of Foreign Languages. All of them were intermediate regarding proficiencylevel. PET was used in order to select the sample out of the population of 90 EFL students.Based on the results, 60 high intermediate students were selected as the sample of the study.The participants in this study were assigned into two mixed equivalent groups of 30 learners(male and female control group, male and female experimental group). The experimental groupreceived error correction treatment through recast. While the control group did not receive anytreatment. The treatment sessions lasted for ten sessions and each session took 90 minutes. Atthe end of experiment, the posttest was administered and then impact of the recast on thegrammatical accuracy of EFL learners speaking skill was investigated. To analyze the obtaineddata, paired samples t-test and independent samples t-test were run. The result of the studyrevealed that the difference between the mean scores of the experimental and control groupswas significant regarding the grammatical accuracy in speaking (p < 0.05). Those who listenedto their corrections used more accurate grammatical forms in their speaking in comparison tothose who did not.

Keywords:

corrective feedback , grammatical accuracy , recast