Hi all! I am looking forward to another great course from iTDi. I work in Osaka, Japan at a private high school.
For error correction I tend to use the most frequent type of correction, recast.
For error correction I tend to use the most frequent type of correction, recast. I believe I use it because it's quick and doesn't harm fluency and communication entirely. But like Penny Ur mentioned, this type of correction all the time may be ineffective and may I add fall on deaf ears most of the times. Research shows that the best correction methods are elicitation, metalinguistic feedback and explicit correction so I feel I need to use more of these methods when correcting my students. Also, sometimes I let errors go by uncorrected mostly because I consider them minor or unimportant errors but there are times when students notice them and correct them. Perhaps it's best the teacher corrects all errors and not the students because it could come across as if the teacher wasn't listening or doesn't care and because learners would rather be corrected by the their teacher than their peers as research shows.
Nice to see you here, Scott.
ReplyDeleteHi Anne. Hope things are going well for you. Just got back from work now. Hope you are ready for a good ride as Penny gives a presentation that even months later I went back and watched and still picked up bits I forgot or missed from before.
ReplyDeleteHi Scott, thanks! I just got back from work myself. I'm really looking forward to this course! I'm sure I'll be just the same.
ReplyDeleteWell was another great time in a course from iTDi. Can't wait for the next week to come.
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