MISTAKES OR ERRORS: AN ENDLESS CHAIN

MISTAKES OR ERRORS: AN ENDLESS CHAIN

CORRECTION AND SPEAKING

Correction should not mean insisting on everything being absolutely correct. Correction means helping students to become more accurate in their use of language.

There should always be times in our lessons when we simply encourage fluency. At such times, we don´t correct linguistic mistakes unless they affect the communication of what the students want to say

Correcting the saying. Teacher correction

Delayed correction. In pairs or in a group

MISTAKES OR ERRORS: AN ENDLESS CHAIN

Prof. Antonio Garcés

Comunicación: Simposio sobre la Formación inicial del Profesorado

WRITTEN WORK

Subject + Verb

There is five people in my family

My main ambition in life are to be a good teacher and play the piano very well

Adverbs

Always I feel nervous

Verbs

I have twenty years old

Adela who love listening to

Nonfinites

Verbs constructed with the ING form

He denied to do it

Verbs constructed with the infinitive

I promise buying you a bike for your birthday

Double use in some anomalous verbs

My wife likes to run

I regret having met her/ I regret to have met her

Verb + preposition

I am fond in collecting stamps

I thing going to Rome

Prepositions + ING form

for spend

Adjectives

Her eyes are browns

My brother is young tall and a nice person

Articles

I like the music / the cats/ the football

My father is lawyer

She is a amusing person

Pronouns

There are five people in my family, his names are Juan, Pedro y Maria

Tenses

Present simple/ present continous

Past simple/ past continous

MISTAKES OR ERRORS: AN ENDLESS CHAIN

Prof. Antonio Garcés

Comunicación: Simposio sobre la Formación Inicial del Profesorado. Febrero 2000

CONCLUSION

Even if the teacher tells his students that they should try to express thenselves freely, it will be difficult for the students to behave in this way when they see that it is not the teacher´s way.

Teachers could base their status on the fact that they are successful examples of what their students aim to be: people from a shared background who have achieved an ability to communicate in English

Learners need a clear idea of the language taht exists outside them, and a strong feeling that the language is developing inside them

We attach some links with online activities to work this theme:

- http://www.curso-ingles.com/ejercicios-test-ingles/menu.php

- http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/english.htm