Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Publication Date
6-5-2015
Abstract
The paper discusses the impact of developing a consciousness-raising approach in error correction at the sentence level to improve students' proofreading ability. Learners of English in a foreign language environment often rely on translation as a composing tool and while this may act as a scaffold and provide some support, it frequently leads to predictable and persistent errors. Such fossilization can cause inaccuracies that detract from student composition and that require instruction and repeated practice in order to eradicate the errors. The current paper reports on an experiment in consciousness-raising about specific categories of errors with a group of 30 students in the Faculty of Education in Zayed University, Dubai during the spring semester 2014. Post-test results compared with those on a pre-test indicate a significant improvement in students' performance as a result of structured input (specially prepared grammar materials) and focused instruction (teaching that focuses on each specific grammar point identified as problematic).
DOI Link
ISSN
Publisher
IUScholarWorks
Volume
15
First Page
85
Last Page
103
Disciplines
Computer Sciences | Education
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
O'Brien, Josephine, "Consciousness-Raising, Error Correction and Proofreading." (2015). All Works. 1041.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/1041
Indexed in Scopus
no
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series