Beliefs and Attitudes of Primary School Learners toward Error Treatment in Foreign Language Learner Talk

Error treatment is the way the teachers and/or instructors respond to a learner's linguistic error made in course of his or her learning a second language. Learners’ beliefs and attitudes are an important aspect of error treatment. The awareness of learners’ beliefs toward error treatment can aid teachers of foreign languages in applying more successful language teaching methods and techniques. This research focuses on the beliefs and attitudes of primary school learners toward error treatment in English as a foreign language and German as a foreign language learner talk. The results suggest that learners have a generally positive attitude towards error treatment. Learners of German have more positive attitudes toward error treatment in general than learners of English. This could be attributed to the way English and German are taught in the Croatian context, as well as the general level of competence of Croatian learners in both languages.Postupanje s grešakama je način na koji učitelji i nastavnici reagiraju na jezične greške učenika stranog jezika. Važan dio tretiranja grešaka su stavovi i mišljenja učenika o postupanju s grešakama u nastavi stranog jezika. Poznavanje stavova i mišljenja učenika o postupanju s grešakama u nastavi stranoga jezika može pomoći nastavnicima stranih jezika da uspješnije primjene razne metode poučavanja stranoga jezika. Ovo istraživanje proučava stavove i mišljenja učenika osnovnoškolskih učenika prema postupanju s grešakama u govoru u nastavi stranih jezika (engleskog i njemačkog). Rezultati upućuju na to da učenici većinom imaju pozitivne stavove prema postupanju s grešakama. Učenici njemačkog jezika imaju pozitivnije stavove prema postupanju s grešakama od učenika engleskog jezika. Mogući razlog su različite metode poučavanja oba jezika te razina jezične kompentencije učenika engleskog i njemačkog u Republici Hrvatskoj