A Teaching Experiment On The Cultivation Of English Error Management Strategy Among The First Grade Students In The Junior Middle Schools

Students in the process of learning English, often have some errors, which is a commonphenomenon. For students, how to face the errors has a great effect on their Englishachievement. Because of increased subjects as well as the deepening and the expansion of theknowledge of English, The students feel increasing pressure.They are too busy to manage theerrors and they are lack of management strategies and management ability. Therefore,learning English is likely to result in the phenomenon of "repeated errors". English knowledgeof the Junior middle school is more fragmentary, lack of systemic. So for students Englisherror is a kind of more valuable resources for English learning. How to treat, manage and usethese resources will have close relations to improve their English achievements and learningability. It will have twice the result with half the effort.This study used a quasi-experimental design, the experiment happened to the two first gradeclasses (experimental classes and control classes) in the third middle school in South County,Cangzhou City, each class has47students. In the field experiment in one semester, from errormanagement concepts, error management attitude, error management behavior and errormanagement strategies, four dimensions, we had a English error management training for thestudents.Through the investigation, we found:1. The first grade students in junior middle school can realize the importance of errors inlearning English. Some students have error management concepts, and have a more positiveattitude. But it is common that they are lack of error management strategy and methods. Theydo not have the habit of managing the errors.2. There were significant gender differences in error management in junior middle schoolstudents. On error management attitudes, values and behavior, the girls were better than boys,but it did not reach the level of significance. On error management strategy, boys were betterthan girls, but there is no significant difference between scores.Through intervention, the results show that:1. Through the cultivation and training of the error management strategy, the studentsrealized the importance of error management. 2. The first grade students in junior middle school can manage the English error effectivelyand actively. So it can greatly improve English grades.3. The cultivation and training of the error management strategy is inseparable from thesupervision and guidance of teachers, at the same time, students’ self-cultivation plays a keyrole. From the error management concepts and attitudes, English teachers help the studentshave the right attitude of errors and error management. Furthermore, teachers shouldsupervise the behavior of students in error management. Especially, the guidance of errormanagement concept and strategy for them is the most important.This study illustrates that the positive and effective error management would ease thepressure of English learning, achieve the methods in leaning English and improve Englishachievements. It has practical significances for the junior middle school students to learnEnglish.