Chinese Teachers’ Feedback on Korean CFL Learners’ Cohesive Errors (“Suoyi” and “Ta”) in Chinese Writing

Abstract

This study investigates Chinese teachers’ feedback on Korean CFL learners’ typical errors of overuse of conjunction “suoyi” and pronoun “ta”. The results showed that Teacher feedback was much concerned rather than cohesion errors but grammar errors because teacher have considered cohesion errors as minor problems. Chinese teacher should acknowledge of repeated typical errors in Korean CFL learners’ writing and be recommended to give direct feedback of cohesive errors (untreated errors: a higher use of “suoyi” and “ta”) to avoid causing fossilization at the beginning.