Interactional Feedback And Children's Acquisition Of Interrogations

In primary school, English teaching has been attached great importance with the communicative approach predominating the classroom, which ensues the problem that their interlanguage fossilization prevails. The paper intends to explore the effective access to expedite their language development, especially their acquisition of interrogation in the communicative classroom.Guided by Long's interaction hypothesis, information-processing theory and Swain's modified output theory, the present study attempts to explore two question: (1) Can interactional feedback facilitate children's L2 development? (2) How do patterns of feedback types relate to learners' variables? Two studies were conducted in a key primary school in Wuhan.The first experimental study is conducted in two intact classrooms with 34 (N=34) subjects chosen in a key primary school in Wuhan. The difference in the treatment between the experimental and control group remains that the subjects' errors in experimental group are treated with interactional feedback; Wherereas the errors of their counterparts are treated with explicit rules explanation. .In the second study, the subjects include all the students in the experimental group (N=40), which lasts for six months. And the tape-recordings drawn from interaction episodes in the experimental group yield 18 hours transcripts-240 episodes of interaction, which forms the foundation of the construct of corpus.In terms of research question one, after the three-month treatment, the written test proceeds and findings elicited from the test suggest that interactional feedback positively affects children's L2 development to some extent, which is manifested in terms of the same number of subjects both at the highest and lowest developmental stage between two groups and the more subjects at the medium stage in experimental group than the control group, considering the uncontrolled factors during the experiment. Besides the uncontrolled factors are explored as the intervening variables such as linguistic items and amount of feedbacks, etc which are examined to shed light into their influence upon the functioning of feedback. In this case the conclusion is drawn that...