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In fluency activities, teachers may decide not to correct learners at the time thatthe mistake is made, but may prefer to leave the correction till later in the lesson.
A method used when students make a mistake and the teacher repeats themistake 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.
When students are able to correct language mistakes they have made, perhapswith some help from the teacher.
This is a way of drawing attention to where a learner has made a mistake. Theteacher counts out the words a student has said on her fingers. The fingers representwords 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 orsentence stress, word order, grammar, pronunciation, etc.
A method used when a teacher corrects what a student has said by repeating thesentence correctly, but without drawing the students’ attention to their mistake.This is usually the way parents ‘correct’ their young children’s language mistakes.
A diagram that shows learners the relationship between tense and time. It is oftenused in language teaching to correct learners when they use tenses wrongly.
When a teacher corrects the error as soon as it is made. This is usually inactivities where the focus is on accuracy
A series of symbols a teacher may use to mark students’ writing, so that they cancorrect mistakes by themselves, e.g. P = punctuation mistake, T = tense mistake.
This is when teachers ask learners to correct each other, rather than correctingthem herself.
The most important thing in a piece of written work is how accurate it is. There should be as few errors aspossible.
It is important for the teacher to correct all of the mistakes in learners’ written work.
Mistakes made by more than one student should be dealt with on a one-to-one basis in a tutorial.
The teacher always needs to collect in written work for marking.
Errors can be identified by underlining and showing the type of error with a symbol in the margin.
A student says the word ‘August’ with poor pronunciation, in open class. The teacher
Students tell stories about themselves in groups of three. The teacher corrects students’ language
In a controlled practice exercise on the past continuous, a pre-intermediate student says ‘I driving downthe road when it happened’. The teacher
At the start of class, when students are talking in open class, one of the learners says, ‘The film wasinterested’. The teacher
In a controlled writing practice activity, a learner makes several mistakes in recently studied language. Theteacher