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Acknowledgment Mr. Achilleas Kostoulas (The university of Manchester) Ms. Houra Hedayati (Alzahra university) Anonymous reviewer of ReCALL journal
Presented By Hojat Jodai University of Guilan The effect of CALL on the types of written Errors of Iranian adult leaners of English Presented By Hojat Jodai University of Guilan
Introduction Language learning involves errors. Errors are inevitable (Keshvarz, 1993). Errors are as indicators of interlanguage.
Significance of Errors (Corder, 1967) Researcher Learner Teacher
CALL & Error Analysis Holland et al. (1993) :Computer programs as analyzers of human language. Dodigovic (2005): CALL provides individualized feedback, Correction, and Ramification
Page (1996)’s PEG (Project Essay Grade)
Figure 1: Comparison of two Human Grader Scores on 200 Essays
Figure 2: Results of Computer Scoring of 190 Essays vs. Average Human
The Study
Participants 21 Iranian female students English major at BA level The mean age: 20.42(SD = 2.06)
Instrumentation 49 written blogs PaperRater.com, a free online e-rater Native expert consultation
Procedures Teacher Participants Researcher Informing students about copy-write issues Participants Surfing the net for a recent book and writing a review for it Researcher Collecting of written blogs via email
Analysis PaperRater.com Researchers’ revision Native expert’s revision
Findings
Figure 3:The total percentage of linguistic based errors
Table 1: The percentages of the types of errors
Figure 4: Sources of Errors
Table 2: The percentages of the sources of errors
Samples of Errors
Morpho-Syntactic Errors He is a very proud young woman and hates Heath a lot and wants to, lives in Paris. (live) Wrong Use of Verb groups He became so religious and he discovers Islam as a religion of brotherhood. (discovered) Wrong sequence of tenses However, it is revealed that she had an cancer. (null) Errors in the use of articles
Intralingual Errors They wore ties, walked on two legs, drinked water.( drank) Overgeneralization He went to Smith house and stolen the gold. (stole) False analogy She is a very proud young woman and hates Heath a lot and wants to lives in Paris(live). Faulty categorization
Interlingual Transfer Two pig took the role of leader. (Pigs) Transfer of morphological elements of L1 The cook is preparing some delicious sandwiches, cookies and etc. Transfer of grammatical elements
Conclusion Only sentence level errors were detected by online e-rater . Nature of errors in CALL are not different from general linguistics. CALL reduce the native language interference
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