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Error Correction in Esl Writing Class at Secondary School Level

Thesis Info

Author

Jehan, Tehseen

Department

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

Program

MEd

Institute

Aga Khan University

Institute Type

Private

City

Karachi

Province

Sindh

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

1998

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Education

Language

English

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676727902810

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In our English language writing classes errors are regarded as undesirable, a sign of failure either on the part of the students partly due to carelessness, lack of motivation and intelligence or on the part of teachers due to their inability to teach or explain sufficiently. Our examination system, which is accuracy based, seems to be influential in developing this attitude among teachers, consequently resulting in severe reaction against the errors made by their students. Students are also embarrassed when their copies are returned by their teachers with a lot of red marks. In this situation the question as to how to use errors and error correction for the improvement of ESL (English as second language) students convinced me to conduct a study in this area. The study focuses on trying out ways of error correction without impeding learning to write The sample of the study consisted of a group of six girls chosen from class V111 of a government school. My place in this study was of an inside researcher as I have already been associated with this school as English language teacher. I acted as teacher and researcher during this study. Fieldwork was spread over seven weeks for which data were collected using semi-structured interviews of teachers and students, analysis of students' homework and class work copies, observation and reflective journals of teachers and students. A process- oriented pedagogy was adopted to conduct the study because it has possibilities for error correction. Students were required to write multiple drafts of the writing papers. Techniques used to correct these drafts have included self, peer and teacher correction. The effects of teacher's and peer feedback and correction were analysed to draw some conclusions about not only the extent to which the revision has responded to the feedback in next draft but also to examine its effect in subsequent drafts. Major findings of the study reveal that teachers' negative views and beliefs about errors (whatever may be the causes) influence their practice of correcting students' errors. They prefer to correct each and every deviation, do not allow students to experiment with the language and consider themselves the only source of error correction. Generally, feedback is confined to some vague words (Good, Poor, Learn spelling etc.). Furthermore, findings of this study throw light on the possible sources of errors made by the students, the significance of teachers' feedback on students writing and
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