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Errors Through The Eyes Of Students Majoring In Teaching Of Foreign Languages

Table 2:

Statement (in bold) and reactions to it Gnutzmann & Kiffe (1993) Ondrakova, Tesar, Pavlikova (2017)
“If a teacher makes errors which I myself can recognize, I consider this situation as embarrassing because teachers should master the language better than their learners.”
a) I do not agree – teachers are justified to make errors because they are human beings who just cannot know completely everything, 16.5 % 53.90 %
b) I agree – teachers should have an exemplary knowledge of the language. 35.4 % 28.57 %
c) I am not sure about that. 48.1 % 17.53 %
“Teachers are usually not native speakers of the taught language; their errors are thus acceptable.”
a) I agree – also teachers are continuously learning the language. 29.3 % 65.58 %
b) I am not sure about that. 48.9 % 25.97 %
c) I do not agree – I am not willing to accept teachers´ errors. 21,8 % 8.44 %
“Sometimes I am made amused by especially stupid mistakes made by teachers.”
a) I agree. 34.6 % 42.86 %
b) I am not sure about that. ? 31.17 %
c) I do not agree. ? 25.97 %
“Mistakes made by teachers should be corrected by their students.”
a) I agree – under the condition that students are not persecuted due to that. 69.9 % 66.23 %
b) I am not sure about that. 22.6 % 23.38 %
c) I do not agree. 7.5 % 10.39 %
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