Correcting learners. Flashcards
Variables to take into consideration when correcting learners.
The aim of the lesson, age and language level.
Using time lines.
These are useful whenever we want to teach a tense; it’s easy to point to the line and represent the tense.
Finger correction.
Through showing one hand to the class and point to each finger in turn as we say each word in the utterance. Particularly effective when learners have left out a word in a utterance.
Gestures.
When we don’t want to interrupt but we still want to show the mistake, a worried or questioning look; to point back, it’s always useful.
Phonemic symbols.
Pointing at the relevant symbols in the chart or writing them.
Echo corrections.
It means repeating the same utterance that the student did wrong with a stress intonation in order to sound like a question. This is useful mainly with slips.
Identifying the mistake.
By focusing learners attention in the mistake and telling them the correct version.
Delayed correction.
When practicing oral fluency it is important to delayed the correction to the end of the activity when can correct the mistakes whitout telling learners who made which mistakes.
Peer and self-correction.
This kind of correction helps the students to become more aware of their own learning needs.
Ignoring errors.
We ignor errors that are above the students’ level. Although we might reformulate part of the learner utterance. Also, ignoring mistakes made by a shy or weak student can be useful to give him confidence.
Reformulating.
This is what parents do with they kids, just repeating the utterance in their right form whenever the learner commits a mistake.
Recasting.
We reword the wrong utterance and saying it back to the learner in its improved form.
Giving the rule and an example or definition.
As the definition itself says; in addition this is particularly useful in a class of adult learners.
Correction code.
To indicate the type of mistakes in written language it is useful to use a code. E.g. Sp = spelling mistake.
how do we correct written mistakes?
We correct the mistakes that are the focus of the lesson or piece of work omiting the ones that are beyond the level of the students.
