Mai Hong Ngoc Pham Thi Mai Duyen Can Tho, 8/2013 PREFERENCES TOWARDS ORAL ERROR CORRECTION OF NON-ENGLISH-MAJORED STUDENTS AT CAN THO UNIVERSITY

1. Research aims 3. Research results 4. Recommendations 2. Research questions Contents

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

1.Which types of oral errors do students expect to be corrected? 2.What are students’ preferences towards teacher’s error correction techniques? 2. Research questions

3. Research results Question 1: Which types of oral errors do students expect to be corrected?  Types of errors students expect to be corrected: 1.Pronunciation errors 2.Grammatical errors

Correction techniques Percentage GrammarPronunciation 1. No correction Recast Explicit correction Disapproval gesture Asking the original question Clarification request Asking another question using the correct form Elicitation Indicating the error for the student to self-correct Metalinguistic clues Question 2: What are students’ preferences towards teacher’s error correction techniques? 3. Research results

 Most favored error correction techniques: Explicit correction and Metalinguistic clues  Least favored error correction techniques: No correction and Disapproval gesture

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 4. Recommendations

 Title: Preferences towards oral error correction of non-English- majored 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.