Error Correction Flashcards
True or false:
You should correct task based errors immediately.
True
True or False:
You should correct every error that takes place through-out the lesson.
False
Task based errors should always be dealt with (?)
Immediately
True or False:
When the goal of a task based lesson is fluency you should still correct errors immediately
False
True or false:
You should disrupt student interaction to correct minor grammatical mistakes.
False
True or false:
You may correct errors after students have finished language production.
True
In general speaking tasks you should not listen carefully and take notes as to present them after the task. Rather you should stop at every mistake.
False
Correction of errors after the task can be very effective so students don’t feel the pressure of (?) scrutiny.
Individual
True or false:
You may also deal with errors in later lessons by dedicating a whole lesson to one particular skill that you have identified as needing work.
True
A way of not singling out individual students, who may get embarrassed, but rather increase the overall awareness of common errors, is to ?
Dedicate a whole lesson to addressing errors
Please name 4 ways of “how” you may address error correction.
- Teacher - class
- Teacher - group
- Teacher - individual
- Self correction
- Peer correction
True or false:
The more you promote accurate self-correction and peer correction, the more it leads to learner autonomy.
True
True or false;
You should never check that self or peer correction is correct or accurate
False
Before you correct self or peer correction it cuts out simple (?) and allows the whole process to go more (?)
Mistakes
Smoothly
Spoken Activities Correction Methods:
In spoken activities you may use (?) expressions and (?) gestures to indicate when a student makes a mistake.
Facial
Hand
Spoken Activities Correction Methods:
You may ask questions for (?)
Clarification
Spoken Activities Collection Methods:
Asking questions using (?) (I.e what tense are you using) may be highly beneficial
Metalanguage
Spoken Activities Correction Methods:
You may also refer to the (?) chart when correcting (?)
Phonemic
Pronunciation
Written Activities Correction Methods:
^ means
Missing word
I ^ swimming
Written Activities Correction Methods:
Sp =?
Spelling Mistake
Written Activities Correction Methods:
Wo =?
Word order mistake
Go always swimming
Written Activities Correction Methods:
T =?
Tense
Yesterday, I swim
Written Activities Correction Methods:
S-V =?
Subject Verb Agreement
She am swimming
Written Activities Correction Methods:
P =?
Punctuation
Yesterday, I was swimming, (p) my friend was at home
Written Activities Correction Methods:
__ __ __ __ =?
Expression choice
I was moving around in the water
Written Activities Correction Methods:
True or false:
Once students become familiar with the code they can self correct and present an updated draft
True
True or false;
Remember not to embarrass students and keep the lesson moving
True
True or false:
Students love spending the last 10 minutes of a lesson practicing something trivial
False
True or false:
It is imperative that error correction doesn’t overshadow the target language of the lesson
True
True or False:
You need to decide whether allowing the error to go uncorrected will inhibit the learning process
True
