Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, , course: Programa de Incentivo a las Investigaciones UNVM, language: English, abstract: Correcting compositions may be made easier for teachers by their using adequate tools to foster students¿ self-correction and learning and by encouraging EFL teachers at the same institution to share unified error correction criteria. The aims of research at UNVM were firstly to help students raise awareness of common error types, mainly those that interfere with comprehension of their compositions, and second to facilitate the learners¿ subsequent improvement of their own written texts. An error correction guide was designed to help teachers and students identify errors which hinder understanding.