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LESSON 15: ERROR CORRECTION. ERROR-FREE AND FLUENT TEACHING OF LANGUAGE SYSTEMS; ERROR CORRECTION METHODS.


Aim: to explore the nature of errors/ mistakes and ways of dealing with them
Objective:

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  to explore students’ perceptions of mistakes
  
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  to introduce some techniques of error correction
  

Lead-in
Time: 10 min
►Procedure:
- ☺(4 min) Explain to students the topic of the lesson and ask them to come up with their associations with mistakes. Ask the following question and invite several responses from the group:
~ What is a mistake like? (e.g. a disease, a defect in construction, an occasional but natural thing)
Give your own example if necessary.
-☺(5 min) Give brief comments on participants’ associations, where appropriate,suggesting that there are different types of mistakes caused by different factors that should be treated differently. Make two important distinctions:
Mistakes are caused by the lack of passive knowledge of certain vocabulary or grammar items (e.g. when students cannot recognise and understand a certain word or a grammar structure) and the lack of a certain productive skill (e.g. when students know words or structures but cannot use them correctly in speaking or writing.)
Explain the term ‘productive skill’ if necessary. Mistakes in form, (e.g. when students use an appropriate word or grammar structure but mispronounce / misspell a word or make mistakes in the structure: *treveling instead of travelling; *I am agree instead of I agree.) and mistakes in meaning (e.g. when students use a word or phrase the form of which is correct but which is used in a wrong context which causes distortion of meaning: *I am interesting in films instead of I am interested in films; *She is always very accurately dressed instead of She is always very neatly dressed)
- ☺(1 min) Emphasise that to work on mistakes it is important to know their cause. Tell participants that now they are going to explore their perceptions of mistakes.