Error Correction

Question 1

True or false:

You should correct task based errors immediately.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

True or False:

You should correct every error that takes place through-out the lesson.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Task based errors should always be dealt with (?)

Answer 3

Immediately

Question 4

True or False:

When the goal of a task based lesson is fluency you should still correct errors immediately

Answer 4

False

Question 5

True or false:

You should disrupt student interaction to correct minor grammatical mistakes.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

True or false:

You may correct errors after students have finished language production.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Correction of errors after the task can be very effective so students don’t feel the pressure of (?) scrutiny.

Answer 8

Individual

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

A way of not singling out individual students, who may get embarrassed, but rather increase the overall awareness of common errors, is to ?

Answer 10

Dedicate a whole lesson to addressing errors

Question 11

Please name 4 ways of “how” you may address error correction.

Answer 11

1. Teacher - class
2. Teacher - group
3. Teacher - individual
4. Self correction
5. Peer correction

Question 12

True or false:

The more you promote accurate self-correction and peer correction, the more it leads to learner autonomy.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

True or false;

You should never check that self or peer correction is correct or accurate

Answer 13

False

Question 14

Before you correct self or peer correction it cuts out simple (?) and allows the whole process to go more (?)

Answer 14

Mistakes

Smoothly

Question 15

Spoken Activities Correction Methods:

In spoken activities you may use (?) expressions and (?) gestures to indicate when a student makes a mistake.

Answer 15

Facial

Hand

Question 16

Spoken Activities Correction Methods:

You may ask questions for (?)

Answer 16

Clarification

Question 17

Spoken Activities Collection Methods:

Asking questions using (?) (I.e what tense are you using) may be highly beneficial

Answer 17

Metalanguage

Question 18

Spoken Activities Correction Methods:

You may also refer to the (?) chart when correcting (?)

Answer 18

Phonemic

Pronunciation

Question 19

Written Activities Correction Methods:

^ means

Answer 19

Missing word

I ^ swimming

Question 20

Written Activities Correction Methods:

Sp =?

Answer 20

Spelling Mistake

Question 21

Written Activities Correction Methods:

Wo =?

Answer 21

Word order mistake

Go always swimming

Question 22

Written Activities Correction Methods:

T =?

Answer 22

Tense

Yesterday, I swim

Question 23

Written Activities Correction Methods:

S-V =?

Answer 23

Subject Verb Agreement

She am swimming

Question 24

Written Activities Correction Methods:

P =?

Answer 24

Punctuation

Yesterday, I was swimming, (p) my friend was at home

Question 25

Written Activities Correction Methods:

__ __ __ __ =?

Answer 25

Expression choice

I was moving around in the water

Question 26

Written Activities Correction Methods:

True or false:

Once students become familiar with the code they can self correct and present an updated draft

Answer 26

True

Question 27

True or false;

Remember not to embarrass students and keep the lesson moving

Answer 27

True

Question 28

True or false:

Students love spending the last 10 minutes of a lesson practicing something trivial

Answer 28

False

Question 29

True or false:

It is imperative that error correction doesn’t overshadow the target language of the lesson

Answer 29

True

Question 30

True or False:

You need to decide whether allowing the error to go uncorrected will inhibit the learning process

Answer 30

True