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ELT Journal 1986 40(4):306-312; doi:10.1093/elt/40.4.306
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Error perceptions of nativespeaking and non-nativespeaking teachers ofESL

Ravi Sheorey

Ravi Sheorey holds a post-graduate diploma in teaching English from die Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India (1970), and an MA (1972) and a PhD (1978) from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught ESL in India and the United States. Since 1981, he has been coordinator of the master's programme in teaching English as a second language and director of ESL composition at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

This article compares the error perceptions of native and non-native ESL teachers from the United States and India, respectively. The teachers were asked to evaluate twenty sentences containing eight types of errors, representing those occurring most frequently in a sample of 97 compositions written by college-level ESL students. Analysis of the reponses indicated that native teachers were more tolerant of errors than non-native teachers and that, while both groups considered verb-related errors to be the most serious, generally the perceptions of the two groups were not alike. The article concludes with a discussion of how the results of the study can be used in marking student papers.


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