Table 2.
Students’ preferences for OCF types.
| N | Min | Max | Mean | SD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q35. If I make an error, I want my teacher to say my utterance again and pause before the error so that I can correct it by myself (e.g. I…). | 236 | 1 | 5 | 3.75 | 1.011 |
| Q36. If I make an error, I want my teacher to repeat my erroneous utterance with a change in intonation so that I can recognise the error and correct it by myself, or my friends can correct it (e.g., I go?). | 236 | 1 | 5 | 3.94 | .950 |
| Q37. If I make an error, I want my teacher to give me comments or language rules so that I can correct it by myself or my friends can correct it (e.g., You need the past tense). | 236 | 1 | 5 | 4.12 | .839 |
| Q38. If I make an error, I want my teacher to ask me to say the utterance again such as ‘What?/What did you say?/Or can you say it again?’ | 236 | 1 | 5 | 3.46 | .938 |
| Q39. If I make an error, I want my teacher to use his/her body language or gestures to signal that there is an error so that I can correct it by myself, or my friends can correct it. | 236 | 1 | 5 | 3.47 | .915 |
| Q40. If I make an error, I want my teacher to give me the correct form by repeating the whole utterance and reformulating the erroneous part (e.g., I went to the train station yesterday). | 236 | 1 | 5 | 3.70 | .939 |
| Q41. If I make an error, I want my teacher to give me the correct form by reformulating and repeating only the erroneous part of the utterance (e.g., I went). | 236 | 1 | 5 | 3.70 | .925 |
| Q42. If I make an error, I want my teacher to give me the correct form by reformulating the erroneous part and ask me another short question (e.g., You went to the train station yesterday. Did you meet someone there? | 236 | 1 | 5 | 4.03 | .850 |
| Q43. If I make an error, I want my teacher to reformulate the erroneous utterance and put it in the form of a confirmation check or a question (e.g., Where did you say you went yesterday?). | 236 | 1 | 5 | 4.00 | .904 |
| Q44. If I make an error, I want my teacher to tell me explicitly that there is an error and give me the correct form (e.g., No, not ‘go’, you should say ‘went’). | 236 | 1 | 5 | 3.95 | .957 |