| 英文摘要 |
Errors are an inevitable part of the drill-and-practice learning process. However, currently, error correction is mostly done via the teacher’s direct correction approach, wherein teachers provide answer keys with elaborative explanations for the most frequently mis-answered questions in the class. Under the contemporary student-centered educational paradigm and the self-improvement principle upheld by the “Twelve-year National Fundamental Education Curriculum Guidelines for Language Education,” this study aimed to examine the effect of two student-centered error-correction strategies— student self-correction and peer-assisted collaborative correction on error-correction performance and English academic achievement, as compared to the traditional teacher direct-correction strategy. A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research design was adopted. Three seventh-grade classes (n = 76) from one junior high school in Tainan City were randomly assigned to three treatment groups and participated in the study for 12 weeks. A total of four instructional units were covered. For each unit, students engaged in paper-based (for non-multiple-choice question types) and online (for multiple-choice questions) correction activities on alternate weeks in response to weekly routine drilland- practice activities. Based on the results of the analysis of covariance technique, two major findings were obtained. First, both self-correction and collaborative correction groups significantly outperformed the teacher direct correction group in error-correction performance. Second, all three groups demonstrated comparable English academic achievement. With reference to the school-wide English academic performance data, the results further revealed that the percentiles of all three participating classes increased after the study. The results of this study substantiated the positive effects of the two-tier error-correction framework in support of student-centered error-correction strategies for promoting students’ error-correction performance and its potential for facilitating English academic achievement. |