The Impact of Teaching Developmental Grammatical Errors on IranianUndergraduate Translator Trainees’ L2 Paragraph Writing Ability

This study aimed to investigate the impact of teaching developmental grammatical errors on translator trainees’ L2paragraph writing ability. After the administration of Oxford Placement Test (OPT), 40 out of 100 undergraduatetranslator trainees were selected from the Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon branch. Further, the participants weredivided into an experimental and a control groups. A pre-test of paragraph writing ability was administered to bothgroups and the participants were asked to write a paragraph about the selected topic. Then, the experimental groupreceived 5 sessions of treatments on teaching developmental grammatical errors extracted from their previous writingperformance while the control group received a placebo. After five sessions of the treatments, the post-test ofparagraph writing ability was administered in which the participants in both groups were asked to write a paragraphabout a selected topic. Three raters corrected the paragraphs. The scores were analyzed using the SPSS software byapplying Independent sample t-test and Pearson correlation. The findings indicated that subjects in the experimentalgroup showed significant improvement in their writing performance

Keywords:

paragraph , writing ability , paragraph writing , grammatical errors , developmentalgrammatical errors