PREFERENCES TOWARDS
ORAL ERROR CORRECTION
OF NON-ENGLISH-MAJORED STUDENTS
AT CAN THO UNIVERSITY
Mai Hong Ngoc
Pham Thi Mai Duyen
Can Tho, 8/2013
Contents
1. Research aims
2. Research questions
3. Research results
4. Recommendations
1. Research aims
 Find out the types of oral errors that
students expect to be corrected
 Find out the error correction techniques
that students expect to receive
2. Research questions
1. Which types of oral errors do students
expect to be corrected?
2. What are students’ preferences towards
teacher’s error correction techniques?
3. Research results
Question 1: Which types of oral errors do students expect to be corrected?
Mean
4.1
4
3.9
3.8
3.7
Mean
3.6
3.5
3.4
3.3
3.2
Grammar Pronunciation Vocabulary
Pragmatics
Discourse
 Types of errors students expect to be corrected:
1. Pronunciation errors
2. Grammatical errors
3. Research results
Question 2: What are students’ preferences towards
teacher’s error correction techniques?
Correction techniques
1. No correction
2. Recast
3. Explicit correction
4. Disapproval gesture
5. Asking the original question
6. Clarification request
Percentage
Grammar Pronunciation
8.33
3.33
69.17
65
83.33
88.33
36.67
39.17
53.33
50
66.67
55.83
75
71.67
8. Elicitation
50.83
58.33
9. Indicating the error for the student to self-correct
71.67
75
10. Metalinguistic clues
88.33
77.5
7. Asking another question using the correct form
3. Research results
 Most favored error correction techniques:
Explicit correction and Metalinguistic clues
 Least favored error correction techniques:
No correction and Disapproval gesture
4. Recommendations
1. Pay much attention to treating students’ errors
2. Take priority to correct students’ pronunciation and
grammatical errors
3. Use Explicit correction and Metalinguistic clues to
correct students’ errors
4. Not use Disapproval gesture or Asking the original
question to correct students’ errors
 Title: Preferences towards oral error correction of non-Englishmajored students at Can Tho University
 Research questions:
1. Which types of oral errors do students expect to be corrected?
2. What are students preferences towards teacher’s error correction
techniques?
 Research results:
1. Types of errors that students expect to be corrected are
pronunciation and grammatical errors.
2. The most favorite correction techniques are Explicit correction
and Metalinguistic clues.