1. IN THE NAME GOD

2. Acknowledgment Mr. Achilleas Kostoulas (The university of Manchester)
Ms. Houra Hedayati
(Alzahra university)
Anonymous reviewer of ReCALL journal

3. 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

4. Introduction Language learning involves errors.
Errors are inevitable (Keshvarz, 1993).
Errors are as indicators of interlanguage.

5. Significance of Errors (Corder, 1967)
Researcher
Learner
Teacher

6. CALL & Error Analysis
Holland et al. (1993) :Computer programs as analyzers of human language.
Dodigovic (2005): CALL provides individualized feedback, Correction, and Ramification

7. Page (1996)’s PEG
(Project Essay Grade)

8. Figure 1: Comparison of two Human Grader Scores on 200 Essays

9. Figure 2: Results of Computer Scoring of 190 Essays vs. Average Human

10. The Study

11. Participants 21 Iranian female students English major at BA level
The mean age: 20.42(SD = 2.06)

12. Instrumentation 49 written blogs PaperRater.com, a free online e-rater
Native expert consultation

13. 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

14. Analysis
PaperRater.com
Researchers’ revision
Native expert’s revision

15. Findings

16. Figure 3:The total percentage of linguistic based errors

17. Table 1: The percentages of the types of errors

18. Figure 4: Sources of Errors

19. Table 2: The percentages of the sources of errors

20. Samples of Errors

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. “I’ll be happy to be of any help”