Rehearsed oral L2 output and reactive focus on form

Abstract

Reactive focus on form is a way of focusing students' attention on their own output. This paper describes a reactive focus on form task, which was part of a university EFL oral presentation course. The students in this study were encouraged to focus on their oral output by taping and transcribing a rehearsal of their presentation. They scrutinized and corrected the transcript before giving it to the teacher, who provided further feedback on points that they had missed. The paper describes the effect of this treatment by comparing the language of the rehearsal transcript with a transcript of the students' presentation two weeks later. It shows how they managed to recall many of the corrected forms and reformulations; the final presentation showed improvements in pronunciation and grammar, and in the organization of content.

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