EFL Teachers and Learners’ Attitudes toward the Application ofIncidental Focus on Form in EFL Institute Classes

This study investigated the EFL teachers and learners’ attitudes toward the application ofincidental focus on form in EFL institute classes. The research was conducted at privatelanguage institutes in Marand, Iran. A total number of 42 teachers and 104 students, who wereselected randomly, participated in this study. Two different questionnaires were used in orderto investigate teachers and learners’ preferences for error correction: one is a questionnaire forstudents, and the other is for teachers. Data gained from the questionnaires were analyzedthrough descriptive statistics. Final results indicated that the majority of both the students(92%) and teachers (76%) agreed that students’ spoken errors need to be corrected. Theyconceded that applying incidental focus on form can affect students learning more efficiently.Both students and teachers had different ideas regarding the various aspects of correctivefeedback including: clarification request, repetition, implicit feedback, explicit feedback,elicitation, metalinguistic feedback, recasts, and no corrective feedback that studying themcan be conducive to EFL teachers, educators, and EFL students

کلیدواژه ها:

Teachers/Learners' attitudes ، Incidental ، Focus on Form