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Identifying Errors in ESL Writing
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Sorg, Rosemary Kathyrn
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2014, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, English (English as a Second Language).
Abstract
At the University of Toledo’s Writing Center, English as a second language (ESL) student writers have been assigned to work with non ESL-focused tutors rather than ESL- focused tutors. Because this has adversely affected the ESL students’ writing in previous semesters, this study was aimed at finding out if student in the master’s degree program for English as a Second Language or undergraduate Writing Center tutors give more accurate error identification and correction on ESL texts. To test this, a stimulus text was created containing ten British dialect variants and ten ESL errors to test the participants’ accuracy on error identification and correction. The results show that Writing Center tutors were more accurate at error identification and correction than the graduate students in the master’s program in ESL.
Committee
Douglas Coleman (Committee Chair)
Sharon Barnes (Committee Member)
Ruslan Slutsky (Committee Member)
Pages
27 p.
Subject Headings
English As A Second Language
Keywords
ESL writing, error identification and correction, global errors, local errors
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Sorg, R. K. (2014).
Identifying Errors in ESL Writing
[Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1418231647
APA Style (7th edition)
Sorg, Rosemary.
Identifying Errors in ESL Writing.
2014. University of Toledo, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1418231647.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Sorg, Rosemary. "Identifying Errors in ESL Writing." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1418231647
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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