Consideration on Error Correction for Teaching Writing in EFL Class = Consideration on Error Correction for Teaching Writing in EFL Class

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

For both communication and academic needs, the demand on teaching/learning writing in English is increasing in Korea as an EFL situation. In teaching/learning L2 writing, error correction should be one of the biggest considerations. On grammar correction in teaching L2 writing, there are pros and cons among researchers such as Truscott(1996), Ferris(1999) and many others. However, in teaching/learning writing in Korea, error correction is much needed withthe following reasons. First of all, students whose writing were corrected show more improvement in their writing than the others whose errors are not corrected. Second, error correction as a form of feedback helps L2students not to give up their endeavor in learning writing and makes them continue to write. In other words, giving feedback on their written errors seems to get better results. For successful error correction in teaching/learning L2 writing, having writing teachers well-trained and making our expectation more realistic should come first. Like asFerris(1999) insists, preparation, practice, and prioritizing of teachers in teaching L2 writing will be the answer to the practical problems. Also, co-teaching with well-prepared native writing teachers will be another alternative since we already have many native teachers in our English education field. Lastly strengthening selection criteria of hiring newEnglish teachers, focusing on their teaching ability of L2 writing, will be another answer.