The Effect of CA-based vs. EA-based Error Correction on Iranian EFL Intermediate Learners’ Lexical Errors of Writing

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of CA- based vs. EA- based error <br /> correction on the improvement of the EFL intermediate learners' Lexical Errors<br /> of writing. Forty intermediate students, all males, studying in an English<br /> Language Institute in Golpayegan participated in this study. After detecting the<br /> participants' errors, the lexical errors were classified into two categories, EA-<br /> based and CA-based errors. The errors which were because of the infuence of L1<br /> on L2 were classified as CA-based errors and the errors which were because of the<br /> lack of target language proficiency were classified as EA-based errors. Then, the<br /> Wilcoxon Test was used to investigate the effect and the improvement of learners'<br /> lexical errors by EA-based and CA-based error correction. The results of the<br /> study showed that there is no significant difference between EA-based and CA-<br /> based error correction in the improvement of the participants' lexical errors.