Characteristics

Description
Example
CHARACTERISTICS
OF
RECASTS
1. Multi-move
(SHEEN, 2006)
recasts
An other-repetition
S: I pay the cost.
a. Corrective recasts precedes the recast.
T: I pay? Ill pay the cost.

b. Repeated recasts

A recast that is repeated

either partially or fully.

S: They probably like

horse or ride horse.
T: Okay, a race horse? A
race horse.

c. Combination
recasts

A recast that occurs with

some other corrective
strategy

S: In San Fransisco, I didnt

need a car. I used
transportations.
T: Transportation.
Uncountable.

Whether the recast is

declarative in form or
interrogative.

S: Yes, I stand in the first

row.
T: You stood in the first
row?

2. Single-move
recasts
a. Mode

b. Scope

The extent to which the

recast differs from the
learners ill-formed
utterance. The recast can
be isolated (an erroneous
part of the learners
utterances is formulated
with no new information
added) or incorporated
(the reformulation involves
additional semantic
content).

S: I think shell travel her

boyfriend after course.
T: I think she will travel
together with her
boyfriend.
S: I think hes not pride.
T: Hes not proud because
he cheated.

c. Reduction
The reformulation of the
learners utterance may
result in reduction (the
recast is shorter than the
learners utterance) or
non-reduction (the recast
repeats the learners entire
utterance).

S: Yeah, Kal told me your

height is rather shorter.
T: Rather short. Rather
short.
S: Im a freshman.
T: I was a freshman.
S: Whats feed up?
T: Fed.

d. Length

e. Type of change

A recast can consist of a

single word or short phrase
(only one content word), a
long phrase (more than
two words), or a clause

S: Eighteenth of January
T: Yeah, the eighteenth of
January.
S: I think Haynes is ur
murder.