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ABSTRACT
This minor research investigated the relationship between the attitudes and teaching
practices of corrective feedback among a number of teachers of English. Participants
were those who were teaching English as a foreign language in Hanoi National
University of Education with certain years of teaching experience. The method to be
employed was a survey questionnaire which involved 30 lecturers. This was followed
by the researcher’s classroom observation of 12 lessons by three teachers chosen from
the participants from the survey. They were teaching speaking skill for English majors
in the same faculty at the university. T1 was in charge of a class with 37 sophomores,
T1 with 28 juniors and T3 with 32 seniors. Finally, one-to-one informal interviews
were administered in a semi-structured format with these three teachers. Accordingly,
the data were collected both quantitatively and qualitatively through a procedure of
note-taking, then combining with the results from informal interviews. The process of
data collection was carried out during the first four weeks of the first semester,
academic year 2012-2013. The findings revealed both differences and similarities
between participants’ attitudes towards error treatment and their practical application in
their speaking classroom settings.