Homework meeting 2 Tasja van Rietschoten
Philp 2003
Both the article and the book are about language learning in a social context. The book refers
to the importance of learning languages in interactions. It says that social factors have
influence on how people learn languages (Geeslin en Long, 2014). Philp (2003) said that
people also learn languages in a social context within students who speak the language
natively recasts the students who are nonnative speakers to that language.
The article of Philp (2003) is about the interaction between native and nonnative
speakers and that this is important to learning a language. Philp (2003) has done research
about how nonnative speakers notice the recast of grammatic of native speakers.
The methodology of this article can be considered high, because this article has used a
research design that answers the question of this article: Do learners notice recasts? In
addition, this article used a data analysis, observations, and experiments. Limitations of this
article are that most people of the sample were socioeconomically advantaged and they were
motivated in general. This could have an influence on the results of the research. In addition,
this research involved interactions in a monitored environment. This research environment is
different from other daily contexts. Therefore the results may differ because of different
surroundings in real life. At last, the analysis was only aimed at a specific linguistic feature;
morphosyntactic. However, there are many other linguistic elements that are not included in
this study. (Philp, 2003)
The most interesting finding in my opinion is that the percentage of noticing the
recasts is relatively high. The people studied are very aware of the recasts. I did not predict
this outcome, because I thought a lot of the recasts would happen unconsciously. But it is a
very conscious process in which students can help each other. It would be interesting to do
research about how we can apply this phenomenon at schools to improve learning languages.
Philp 2003
Both the article and the book are about language learning in a social context. The book refers
to the importance of learning languages in interactions. It says that social factors have
influence on how people learn languages (Geeslin en Long, 2014). Philp (2003) said that
people also learn languages in a social context within students who speak the language
natively recasts the students who are nonnative speakers to that language.
The article of Philp (2003) is about the interaction between native and nonnative
speakers and that this is important to learning a language. Philp (2003) has done research
about how nonnative speakers notice the recast of grammatic of native speakers.
The methodology of this article can be considered high, because this article has used a
research design that answers the question of this article: Do learners notice recasts? In
addition, this article used a data analysis, observations, and experiments. Limitations of this
article are that most people of the sample were socioeconomically advantaged and they were
motivated in general. This could have an influence on the results of the research. In addition,
this research involved interactions in a monitored environment. This research environment is
different from other daily contexts. Therefore the results may differ because of different
surroundings in real life. At last, the analysis was only aimed at a specific linguistic feature;
morphosyntactic. However, there are many other linguistic elements that are not included in
this study. (Philp, 2003)
The most interesting finding in my opinion is that the percentage of noticing the
recasts is relatively high. The people studied are very aware of the recasts. I did not predict
this outcome, because I thought a lot of the recasts would happen unconsciously. But it is a
very conscious process in which students can help each other. It would be interesting to do
research about how we can apply this phenomenon at schools to improve learning languages.
