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remembered all the grammar parts, but they can improve even though little in every meeting. Ms. S, My Translation.
Another statement comes from Mr. Ed that supported Ms. S‟s opinion saying that “Oral grammar correction is normally done directly in front of the students, because of this so
psychologically the students will know and later in the future they will not use the incorrect ones when talking” Mr. Ed, My Translation
From Ms. S‟s and Mr. Ed‟s opinions, it can be concluded that when the students were corrected by their teacher using oral grammar correction, the students would learn how to
produce correct utterances according to English grammar. Then, based on the teachers‟
observation, after the students were able to produce correct utterances, they would not get embarrassed when talking to their partners since they were able to avoid grammatical
mistakes that they probably made in the previous meetings. This finding is similar to Truscott‟s study. Truscott 1999 in his research found that students might still make
grammatical mistakes during learning process, but after oral grammar correction was given to them, the students could perform better and it could be seen on the speaking test results
especially on grammar parts.
1.2 Preventing Fossilization
Based on my interview with the participants, the second advantage of using oral grammar correction was to prevent fossilization that normally happened in speaking
activities. 1 out of 12 participants mentioned and discussed about fossilization. Understanding the importance of producing correct grammar in their utterances when
learning language, oral grammar correction could be used to shape students‟ understandings and accuracy in using correct grammatical patterns. Therefore, if the students could
understand the rules of English grammar, they could have good foundation or formula in speaking or creating correct patterns when producing utterances and
students‟ grammatical
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which said “Yes, grammar is important in English language teaching because grammar is like
the foundation in everything, like in speaking and writing. If we have good grammar we can speak fluently or use the language appropriately”. Ms. T, My Translation. Furthermore, Mr.
Ed also supported Ms. T‟s statements which said “If we correct students‟ grammatical
mistakes, it can help the students to have a good foundation so that fossilization toward incorrect grammar will not happen
”. Mr. Ed, My Translation.
These two arguments are similar to Han and Odlin ‟s study. Han and Odlin 2006
described that fossilization means the failure in L2 learning process; this is also permanent state of not attaining desire of some L2 competence in learning process. Understanding the
effect of fossilization toward second language or foreign language to students, Ms. S argued that
“Oral grammar correction also helps the teachers to show the mistakes that the students made at a particular time and the teachers can make sure that the students really know the
mistakes that they mad e”. Ms. S, My Translation.
It means that based on the participant‟s teaching experience in using oral grammar correction as shown in the interview results, the students could remember better about the
corrections or evaluations from the teachers because the teachers directly notice, show, and correct students‟ grammatical mistakes.
2. Efficiency in technical problems
