RATIONALE (REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE TOPIC)

1. RATIONALE (Reasons for choosing the topic):

There is no doubt that learning English is very important. Especially,

since the school year 2013-2014, it is compulsary for high school students

throughout Vietnam to do English test in the GCSE exam. This heightens the

need for teachers to investigate alternative approaches to teaching skills that

would lead to significant improvement in students’ marks.

Error identification is one of exercises in the GCSE exam making up 0,6

points which most students have difficulties in identifying the errors.

There are some reasons for this. Firstly, The studens don’t learn English

grammar well (such as verbs tenses, world forms, verb forms, conjunctions,

prepositions ...). Secondly, most teachers mainly focus on teaching the theory

of grammar, they don’t teach students the methods of doing this exercise. When

correcting for the students, the teachers often help their students to identify the

errors directly and explain about these errors. Therefore, students only identify

the errors in specific sentences.

It is for such reasons that my experiential initiative attempts to explore

“ Some methods of doing error identification exercise in the GCSE exam ”