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| Title: | A COMPARATIVE muDY OF ERROR GRAVITIES m ENGLISH |
| Authors: | Teshane, Demisse |
| Advisors: | AAYDN T.GEORGE |
| Copyright: | Jun-1985 |
| Date Added: | 24-Nov-2012 |
| Abstract: | Teachers and non-teachers, language and non-languageteachers, native
and non-native teachers of the target languagemaydiffer considerably in
their evaluations of learners' errors. This study showssane contrasts in
the reactions of four groups of judges: native and non-native speaker
teachers of English, non-teaching native speakers of English and Ethiopians
teaching Subjects other than English. Theyjudged the seriousness of sixty
errors, mostly madeby Third Year students in the Institute of Language
Studies at Addis AbabaUniversity. The three groups of teachers were more
intolerant of errors than the non-teaching native speakers of English. The
native speaker teachers of English were more lenient than the two non-native
teachers (of English and other subjects), while the non-teaching native
speakers were the most lenient. The two groups of native speakers (teaching
and non-teaching) of English reacted to the errors moreuniformly than did
the other two non-native speaker teachers (of English and other subjects).
In spite of the contrasts. the groups tend t~ agree on the relative
importance of the linguistic elements to sane extent. This agreementis
relatively greatest betweenthe two language teaching groups (natives and
non-natives). but that betweenthe native speaker teachers of English and
the Ethiopian teachers of other subjects is the least.
It is suggested that, perhaps, such differences are also observed when
deciding on scales for final evaluations. whichmaycause disagreements, while
settling cut-off points. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3944 |
| Appears in: | Thesis - Teaching English as a Foreign Language
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