Error Correction
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Research in error correction has been focused on whether teachers should correct errors in student writing and how we should go about doing it. From the investigation in Hong Kong, data was gathered of a teacher survey comprising a questionnaire and follow-up interviews, a teacher error correction task, and a student survey made up of a questionnaire and follow-up interviews. Results proved that both teachers and students preferred comprehensive error feedback and the teachers used a limited range of error feedback strategies, and only about half of the teacher corrections of student errors were accurate. (Lee, 2004).The study demonstrated that the students were reliant on teachers in error correction, and that the teachers were not much aware of the long-term significance of error feedback. (Lee, 2004).
It has been argued that error correction is necessary for adult learners. Higgs, Clifford (1982), and Omaggio (1984) believe that without error correction learners will develop fossilization (as cited in DeKeyser, 1993). Fossilization is said to occur "when the L2 learner stagnates in a permanent
state of not attaining a desired L2 native state, and L2 attrition results from the permanent loss of some level of L2 competence that the L2 user reportedly had acquired at an earlier stage" (Nakuma, 2006, p. 21).
Sources:
Lee, I. (2004). Error correction in L2 secondary writing classrooms: The case of Hong Kong. Journal of Second Language Writing, 13(4), 285-312. doi:10.1016/j.jslw.2004.08.001
Nakuma, C.K. (2006). Researching fossilization and second language (L2) attrition: Easy questions, difficult
answers. In Z.H. Han & T. Odlin (Eds.), Studies of fossilization in second language acquisition (pp. 21-34).
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It has been argued that error correction is necessary for adult learners. Higgs, Clifford (1982), and Omaggio (1984) believe that without error correction learners will develop fossilization (as cited in DeKeyser, 1993). Fossilization is said to occur "when the L2 learner stagnates in a permanent
state of not attaining a desired L2 native state, and L2 attrition results from the permanent loss of some level of L2 competence that the L2 user reportedly had acquired at an earlier stage" (Nakuma, 2006, p. 21).
Sources:
Lee, I. (2004). Error correction in L2 secondary writing classrooms: The case of Hong Kong. Journal of Second Language Writing, 13(4), 285-312. doi:10.1016/j.jslw.2004.08.001
Nakuma, C.K. (2006). Researching fossilization and second language (L2) attrition: Easy questions, difficult
answers. In Z.H. Han & T. Odlin (Eds.), Studies of fossilization in second language acquisition (pp. 21-34).
Clevedon: Multilingual Matters
Retrieved from http://dir.coolclips.com/Business/Office_Stationery/A_to_F/Correction_Fluid/white-out,_correction_fluid_vc010909.html