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Two Samples of Students' Practical Projects

 
Note to the Appendix

For both students and tutors, two samples of students' practical projects are included. In order to give you an authetic picture of what real-life students' projects look like, no editing has been made on the original texts, although the original formats and layouts have been slightly altered in order to cut the length of the appendix to its tolerable size.

Note that the samples should not be treated as the models for students to follow blindly.

The authors of the present book would like to take this opportunity to thank the two students who are kind enough to allow their projects to be included in the appendix.



 
 

6. Project implementation

My students are third-year students. They are facing graduation.

It took three weeks for me to implement my project. For each week I am scheduled to do these:

Teaching notes: To see Appendix C.
Students' handouts: To see Appendix F.
ˇˇMy students' handouts include: 1) Writing exercises 2) Homework
Diary-keeping: Students' responses and my own observation. To see Appendix D

I have also bought four folders in four different colors for file keeping purposes.

I want to know if the hypothesis has been proved by the three week use of varied error-correction techniques with the target group. That is, if my students' errors in writing reduced or not. I have three sources of data that help me to find it out. All the details of my project implementation were carefully maintained. They are data collection submitted as part of my project report pack.

The previous interview I did with my students for the cause analysis of my initial problem .
From the interview I know that I should give more practice and emphasizing. I should speak loudly and write down the important points on the blackboard. I pay more attention to this kind of problems. And find that the students can go with me easily. From the post-trial interview, the students say they are quite satisfied with what I have done for them.

Classroom observations I took in my diary.
My students became more active than before. They are willing to correct their mistakes. They even feel the correction work is very interesting. It is easy for them to correct their mistakes, and reduce the errors in writing.

The comparison of the final writing work between the control and the target group.
Look at the student's writing work and exercises between the control and the target group. The target group is much better than the control group. They made fewer mistakes than the control group. They also made fewer mistakes than before. The comparison between the first model test paper and the second model test paper. The first score rate is 55.6%. The second score rate 72.4%. The last comparison may be compared after the graduation paper. I think it will be more forceful. Let's look and see.

From the above analysis I draw a conclusion learners' errors in writing can be reduced.