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Error correction support refers to an [[instructional method]] that aids students in learning from errors or from incorrect behavior.  Specific kinds of error correction support include [[corrective self-explanation]] (see [[Booth]] study), encouraging student self-correction (see [[The self-correction of speech errors (McCormick, O’Neill & Siskin)|McCormick et al]] study), and adapting instruction to [[student uncertainty]] (see [[Student_Uncertainty|Forbes-Riley & Litman]] study).
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Prompting error repair is an instructional method where students are invited to detect and/or correct errors (Reif & Scott, 1999; Essay errors...).
  
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For instance, [[The self-correction of speech errors (McCormick, O’Neill & Siskin)|McCormick et al]] invite ESL students to detect errors in recordings of their speech, and activity formerly done only by teachers.  For example, while listening to her recording of her speech and reviewing the transcript of that speech, the student detects and corrects the following word choice error: "I said, 'I can't predict this problem.'  I should have said, 'I can't fix this problem.'"
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[[Booth|Booth et al.]] showed students some instructor-authored errors, and had them explain why the errors were wrong.
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In the[[Student_Uncertainty|Forbes-Riley & Litman]] study, if students give a correct response but the intonation contour of their spoken response indicates uncertainty, then the tutoring system gives them the same remediation (a subdialogue) as it would if the response were incorrect.  Although this manipulation is perhaps not a close fit to the method of prompting error repair, it does invite students to treat their uncertainty as an error and to "repair" it.
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* Reif, F., & Scott, L. A. (1999). Teaching scientific thinking skills: Students and computers coaching each other. ''American Journal of Physics, 67''(9), 819-831.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 15:01, 24 May 2007

Prompting error repair is an instructional method where students are invited to detect and/or correct errors (Reif & Scott, 1999; Essay errors...).

For instance, McCormick et al invite ESL students to detect errors in recordings of their speech, and activity formerly done only by teachers. For example, while listening to her recording of her speech and reviewing the transcript of that speech, the student detects and corrects the following word choice error: "I said, 'I can't predict this problem.' I should have said, 'I can't fix this problem.'"

Booth et al. showed students some instructor-authored errors, and had them explain why the errors were wrong.

In theForbes-Riley & Litman study, if students give a correct response but the intonation contour of their spoken response indicates uncertainty, then the tutoring system gives them the same remediation (a subdialogue) as it would if the response were incorrect. Although this manipulation is perhaps not a close fit to the method of prompting error repair, it does invite students to treat their uncertainty as an error and to "repair" it.

  • Reif, F., & Scott, L. A. (1999). Teaching scientific thinking skills: Students and computers coaching each other. American Journal of Physics, 67(9), 819-831.