Title: Effects of Oral Corrective Feedback in Focus-on-Form Instruction on Senior High School Students’ Acquisition of the English Passive Voice

Abstract: In studies on Focus-on-Form instruction, no consensus has been reached about the effects of the explicit and implicit oral corrective feedback on foreign language grammar teaching and learning. Accordingly, this study examines the effects of metalinguistic and recast oral corrective feedback (MOCF and ROCF) on Chinese high school students’ acquisition of the English passive voice. The results show that both MOCF and ROCF can promote senior high school students’ acquisition of explicit and implicit knowledge of the English passive voice. Differences occur when the complexity of the grammatical rules varies. For the simple grammatical rules of the English passive voice, the effects of MOCF and ROCF are generally the same, but MOCF is more effective for the acquisition of the complex grammatical rules.

Keywords: metalinguistic oral corrective feedback, recast oral corrective feedback, explicit knowledge, implicit knowledge, English passive voice, Focus-on-Form Instruction

Author: Minzhe Chen, Professor, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Ying Meng, Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Yiling Zhang, Suzhou Industrial Park Wencui Primary School, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

DOI: 10.19967/j.cnki.flc.2024.02.012