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M3U32 Correcting learners Quiz

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  1. 1. Decide what mistakes the teachers are making and what consequences these mistakes might cause.

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  4. 4. Match the term for correction with the description of the correction strategy.

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    In fluency activities, teachers may decide not to correct learners at the time that
    the mistake is made, but may prefer to leave the correction till later in the lesson.

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    A method used when students make a mistake and the teacher repeats the
    mistake with rising intonation, encouraging students to correct themselves, e.g.
    Student: He don’t like it.

    Teacher: Don’t

    Student: He doesn’t like it.

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    When students are able to correct language mistakes they have made, perhaps
    with some help from the teacher.

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    This is a way of drawing attention to where a learner has made a mistake. The
    teacher counts out the words a student has said on her fingers. The fingers represent
    words and the teacher can show clearly in which word (finger) the mistake was made.
    A teacher may use her fingers to show that a mistake has been made with word or
    sentence stress, word order, grammar, pronunciation, etc.

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    A method used when a teacher corrects what a student has said by repeating the
    sentence correctly, but without drawing the students’ attention to their mistake.
    This is usually the way parents ‘correct’ their young children’s language mistakes.

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    A diagram that shows learners the relationship between tense and time. It is often
    used in language teaching to correct learners when they use tenses wrongly.

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    When a teacher corrects the error as soon as it is made. This is usually in
    activities where the focus is on accuracy

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    A series of symbols a teacher may use to mark students’ writing, so that they can
    correct mistakes by themselves, e.g. P = punctuation mistake, T = tense mistake.

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    This is when teachers ask learners to correct each other, rather than correcting
    them herself.

  13. 13. Do you think the following statements are right? Give your opinion for each one.

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    The most important thing in a piece of written work is how accurate it is. There should be as few errors as
    possible.

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    It is important for the teacher to correct all of the mistakes in learners’ written work.

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    Mistakes made by more than one student should be dealt with on a one-to-one basis in a tutorial.

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    The teacher always needs to collect in written work for marking.

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    Errors can be identified by underlining and showing the type of error with a symbol in the margin.

  18. 18. Look at the situations in which a teacher corrects students and at the correction strategies listed. Two of the reasons are appropriate for each activity. One of the reasons is NOT appropriate. Mark the reason which is NOT appropriate.

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    A student says the word ‘August’ with poor pronunciation, in open class. The teacher

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    Students tell stories about themselves in groups of three. The teacher corrects students’ language

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    In a controlled practice exercise on the past continuous, a pre-intermediate student says ‘I driving down
    the road when it happened’. The teacher

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    At the start of class, when students are talking in open class, one of the learners says, ‘The film was
    interested’. The teacher

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    In a controlled writing practice activity, a learner makes several mistakes in recently studied language. The
    teacher