The Effect of CA-based vs. EA-based Error Correction on Iranian EFL Intermediate Learners’ Lexical Errors of Writing

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of CA- based vs. EA- based errorcorrection on the improvement of the EFL intermediate learners’ Lexical Errorsof writing. Forty intermediate students, all males, studying in an EnglishLanguage Institute in Golpayegan participated in this study. After detecting theparticipants’ errors, the lexical errors were classified into two categories, EAbasedand CA-based errors. The errors which were because of the infuence of L1on L2 were classified as CA-based errors and the errors which were because of thelack of target language proficiency were classified as EA-based errors. Then, theWilcoxon Test was used to investigate the effect and the improvement of learners’lexical errors by EA-based and CA-based error correction. The results of thestudy showed that there is no significant difference between EA-based and CAbasederror correction in the improvement of the participants’ lexical errors.