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Theme:
The Influence of Error Correction in the Motivation of Oral Communication I Students at the Universidad de Costa Rica Sede de Occidente in the first period 2011
General Objective:
• To analyze the influence of Error Correction in the motivation of Oral Communication I students.
Specific Objectives:
• To identify the main techniques English teachers use to correct students´ errors.
• To describe the student’s perspective about the error correction techniques applied during Oral Communication I class.
• To provide results and suggestions related to error correction techniques.

Methodology:
The present study was conducted during the first cycle of 2011 at the Universidad de Costa Rica Sede de Occidente, San Ramón. For confidentiality purposes, however, the involved subjects will be referred to as “the subject (s), the teacher (s), and/or the student (s)”.
The research was carried out following two stages. Initially, there was a literature review in order to support the ideas that were developed later. Secondly, an interview was conducted with the intention of getting students´ perspectives about the techniques that have been applied through the course oral communication I.
From each oral communication I group, it was considered a sample of ten students, each student was applied an instrument in which students identifying the error correction techniques applied by teachers, as well as their perspective about the effectiveness of these techniques. Besides the motivation aspect was implied in the instrument.
The approach of this research was qualitative and the data analysis corresponded to the same approach.