Volume 50
Article Errors in the English Writing of Advanced L1 Arabic Learners: The Role of Transfer
The problems encountered by English learners whose mother tongue does not have an article system have been researched extensively. The problems encountered by learners whose mother tongue does have an article system, such as Arabic, have been studied less. This article describes an enquiry into article system errors in a corpus of English writing by tertiary-level L1 Arabic speakers.
Error Correction of L2 Students’ Texts – Theory, Evidence and Pedagogy
In the last ten years there has been a revival of support for error correction of second language students’ written texts underpinned by disillusionment with the notion that comprehensible input alone is sufficient for acquisition of all aspects of a second language. Empirical studies in comprehensive and focused correction have aided this revival and demonstrated that error correction can produce significant benefits.
