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.
I fully agree! When I prepare students for international exams, the second I say ''let's do part 2 speaking'' or something like that- their English instantly changes! Before that, they are chatty and fluent, but when we start doing controlled speaking activities - their behaviour changes, they are more silent, they lose fluency...
ReplyDeleteYes, it definitely makes us think about how we give directions and set up the task.
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