The elastic α-12 C scattering for l = 2 at low energies is studied in effective Lagrangian approach. We explicitly include two resonant 2 + 2 and 2 + 3 states of 16 O in the scattering amplitude and fit the parameters to the phase shift data. We also study three contributions from higher order, the resonant 2 + 1 state of 12 C, the resonant 2 + 4 state of 16 O, and a vertex correction of the initial and final state interactions of the amplitude for the 2 + 3 state of 16 O, by imposing three conditions at the very low energies where the phase shift data are not available, and calculate the asymptotic normalization coefficient (ANC) for the sub-threshold 2 + 1 state of 16 O. We find that the previously reported small and large values of the ANC can be reproduced depending on the imposed conditions, but we obtain a large error bar to the large ANC value reported from the α transfer reactions.