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Park, Seungwon. “A Study on Analyzing English Learning Mistakes in Korean EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 42.3 (2016): 207-219. The present study examines the types of grammatical mistakes or errors that English learners made when they took the OPIc speaking lesson and compared the two test results of OPIc. 21 undergraduates participated and one native speaker helped the researcher to analyze the data. The results were classified into several parts of speech: articles, auxiliaries & modals, conjunctions, prepositions, personal pronouns, noun inflections, verb inflections, and others. Among them, grammatical mistakes or errors of articles were the highest at 42.8%, followed by those of prepositions at 23.9%, others at 8.9%, auxiliaries & modals at 6.8%, noun inflections at 5.4%, verb inflections at 5.0%, conjunctions at 4.1%, and personal pronouns at 3.1%. The OPIc learners were not likely to try to correct their mistakes or errors within the limited time while listening, writing, and speaking in exercises in class. This research suggests that explicit grammatical and communicative instruction based on swift feedback and correction is needed to positively teach spoken English. (Konyang University)