영작 클리닉 피드백을 통해 본 대학생 영작문 오류 양상 및 지도 방안 모색

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine what kind of writing feedback the students received when they had a writing conference with a native English-speaking professor in English writing clinics, and to examine the characteristics of students' English writing from the perspective of errors. In addition, this study attempted to investigate how learners' English writing changed after they got the English writing conference. To do this, 402 pieces of student writing feedback checklists obtained through English writing clinics with native English-speaking professors were analyzed for frequency. As a result of the analysis, the total number of English writing clinic feedback provided by native English-speaking professors was 3631, with an average of about 9 per student. The frequency of language use was 1324(36.5%), the frequency of content and organization feedback was 946(26.1%), the frequency of task completion was 804(22.1%), and the frequency of mechanical errors was 557(15.3%). Feedback in language use related to grammar and vocabulary accounted for the most, followed by the feedback on content and organization for writing fluency. The characteristics of the students' English writing, as seen through the feedback received from the native English-speaking professors at the English writing clinic, were that the students generally wrote according to the subject, the length tended to be rather short, and there were minor mistakes in the use of capitalization and punctuation marks. The students still had a lot of lexical and grammatical errors, and in terms of content and organization, they tended to express proper nouns in Korean, and occasionally lacked the topic sentences as well as supporting details. Additionally, in order to find out whether students use the feedback given by the native English-speaking professors when revising their English writings, the scores on the students' first drafts of English writing and the revised drafts were compared and analyzed. The average English writing score of the revised writings was significantly higher than the score of the first drafts. In other words, the feedback offered by the native English-speaking professors during English writing clinics helped students to correct their English writing and led to the improvement of the quality of English writing, showing the usefulness of the English writing clinic.