Implementing Error Correction Strategies to Enhance Arts & Science College Students’ Writing Skills

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to implement error correction strategies to enhance arts & Science college students’ writing skills. Participants of the study were final year students of UG and PG from Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Arts and Science College for Women, Perambalur. An Online Google form and a survey questionnaire were administered in this study to collect data. Five point likert scale was incorporated in the questionnaire. Respondent’s size is two hundred and seventeen (217) female students. The problem statement of the study is that the female students of Arts and Science College struggle to frame a correct sentence with proper sentence structure. They are unable to frame a sentence with complete meaning. The hypothesis of the study is to enhance the arts and science female students' writing skills through the gallery walk technique and three error correction techniques. The objectives of the study are i) to enhance the writing skills of arts and science college female students, ii) To develop the ability of students to understand the importance of sentence making, iii) To bring awareness about the gallery walk technique, self, peer, and teacher correction, and its benefits. The research questions are i) Will the students develop their writing skills through self-correction, peer-correction, and teacher-correction strategies? ii) Will students enhance sentence structure and sentence pattern through the gallery walk technique? iii) Will students improve their language proficiency through texts and images? The collaborative theory is utilized in this study. The findings of the study are that through gallery walk and self-correction, peer-correction, and teacher-correction strategies, students have shown involvement and improvement.