Error Competence and Structural Competence inEFL Context

This investigation was conducted with the intention of possibly recognizing errorcompetence as a new variable related to advanced learnersʹ structural weakness.Error competence as one of the psychological levels of error orientation is the activeknowledge to recover from errors immediately and reduce the error consequences.And error orientation shows how learners cope with and react to their own mistakesand errors. The purpose of the study has been to determine the existence of anymeaningful relationship between the error competence and the structural competenceof the EFL students. The target population of the research included the Englishstudents at Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch. A sample of 200 EFL seniorstudents was selected based on the multistage random sampling. They wereadministered the two instruments of the research: The Structural Error CompetenceQuestionnaire (SECQ) and the structure section of a standard TOEFL test. Theresearch has been conducted based on a descriptive correlational study in Iran andresulted in the existence of significant correlation between the two variables. Thecorrelation coefficient amounted to 0.228 which was significant and positive at the0.0 I level. In conclusion, this investigation has paved the way to support the idea ofhaving error competence as a strategy which needs training and management.