Chinese Learners' Noticing Of Recasts Feedback In Ns-Nns Interaction

Recasts in the present study is one kind of implicit feedback, which includes all native speakers' utterances immediately following a normative speakers' non-target-like utterances that reformulate part or all of the utterances while maintaining the central meaning. The central research questions addressed in this study are: in the NS-NNS interaction, do Chinese learners notice native speakers' recasts feedback as negative evidence? And which factors constraint on the noticing? During each dyadic interaction, learners received recasts of their non-target-like forms. Accurate immediate recall of recasts was taken as evidence of noticing of recasts by learners. We consider that accurate recall was constrained by the level of the learners and by the length and numbers of changes in the recasts. It is suggested that attentional resources and processing biases of the learner may modulate the extent to which learners "notice the gap" between their non-target-like utterances and recasts. We hope the research can inspire the classroom instruction and interactional research for Chinese second language acquisition.