xiaoz
2006-09-05, 01:52 AM
Helping teachers correct structural and lexical English errors
David C.S. Li & Alice Y. W. Chan
City University of Hong Kong
This paper appeals for corpus-based research with the ultimate
objective of helping local ESL teachers deliver pedagogically sound
error-correction feedback to their students. One intermediate goal is to
establish an error taxonomy, which is best organized by following an
approach which incorporates both structural and lexical errors. A fairly
comprehensive review of local research on ESL errors suggests that the
findings to date are fragmented, offering little useful pedagogical
insight to ESL teachers and students. A partial taxonomy of Chinese
Interlanguage (Yip, 1995) errors based on the authors’ observations and
available data is suggested. Two examples are provided to illustrate
how a teacher can use corrective feedback constituted by a set of
pedagogically sound procedures to help learners self-monitor their own
written English output.
http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/5/500062.pdf
David C.S. Li & Alice Y. W. Chan
City University of Hong Kong
This paper appeals for corpus-based research with the ultimate
objective of helping local ESL teachers deliver pedagogically sound
error-correction feedback to their students. One intermediate goal is to
establish an error taxonomy, which is best organized by following an
approach which incorporates both structural and lexical errors. A fairly
comprehensive review of local research on ESL errors suggests that the
findings to date are fragmented, offering little useful pedagogical
insight to ESL teachers and students. A partial taxonomy of Chinese
Interlanguage (Yip, 1995) errors based on the authors’ observations and
available data is suggested. Two examples are provided to illustrate
how a teacher can use corrective feedback constituted by a set of
pedagogically sound procedures to help learners self-monitor their own
written English output.
http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/5/500062.pdf