Comments on: 15 ways to correct spoken errors

By: domi

domi — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:03:39 +0000

Dear Umida!

I would like to ask you to send me your e-mail address as I have just started to write my thesis on the topic of error correction. You may have some useful ideas for me…. Thank you!

By: umida

umida — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:50:50 +0000

Alex I wrote my diploma on the topic Error correction in EFL speaking classroom. And the info which I found here helped me a lot. Thanks a lot.

By: umida

umida — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 06:40:51 +0000

Great page. I really liked all the information here. Why do not you write a book dedicated on this topic Alex. I think it would be a great job

By: Akshaya

Akshaya — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:33:06 +0000

A heartiful thanks to all the team i got a lots of help from this site

As some of the people told me that your english is good and they asked me to give some tips and as per no one is perfect so i visited the site and got some good things

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:31:37 +0000

Kimmy- Personally, I think Elementary students need very little correction. They mainly need vocabulary to reach a level where they can understand the English around them and start to enjoy the language and really communicate, and then the grammatical errors can be dealt with or even sometimes sort themselves out if they ever need a higher level than that (most students don’t)

By: Eric Roth

Eric Roth — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:43:37 +0000

Great list. While I tend to favor indirect corrections with older adult students to help students save face in the moment, I’ve also found just jotting down the “good mistakes” – common, perhaps even logical errors – during the discussion helpful. I often devote the last ten minutes of class to review that lessons’ “good mistakes” so nobody feels put on the spot, and we can separate the sin from the sinner.

Again, great list. Why don’t you publish a book with these 15 tips for this and 15 tips for that? I’d certainly buy it and recommend it for any English teacher training program.

By: kimmy

kimmy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:45:27 +0000

thanks a lot but how about those students who make mistakes in every sentence they say ;mistakes in pronunciation,grammer,and vocabulary people i am suffering .I teach very week students.Sometimes i am about to cry.

By: littlekhanh

littlekhanh — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:51:51 +0000

I’ve highly appreciated the way that the writer sumps up the way to correct students’ spoken mistakes. Really not necessary to correct immediately whenever they make mistakes. They will feel embarrassed and not self- confident to continue what they want to say. Very imporant to encourage them speak. Here with 15 ways to correct but I’m really interested in the 1st. 2nd, 3rd.. ways.
Thanks again.

By: aaiah_love

aaiah_love — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:43:35 +0000

There is certainly another whole article (or 10!) I could write about the potential difficulties of each technique, including indeed the fact that the students might remember what they were being asked to correct but not the corrected version. The idea of eliciting the mistakes they made is to teach them to monitor their own speech all the time until they can correct themselves, but of course some students do this too much- hence tip number 16.

By: mody

mody — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:45:14 +0000

thanx so much

By: messy

messy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:09:21 +0000

Thank u very much for these 15 ways

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:38:44 +0000

Thanks Tony, using a voice recorder is a great hint that I have also used sometimes but forgot about when writing the article

By: TONY WADHWA

TONY WADHWA — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:03:09 +0000

I appreciate this effort and as i have allready used some of these tools in my classroom and they are really working,along with I use a voice recorder which has been proved a boon

By: Olga

Olga — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:46:51 +0000

I don’t agree with this part “I suggest the teacher writes down the student’s mistakes while he is talking, and does not interfere in the speech because this may confuse the speaker and stop him from going on”
In my teaching practice all students notice that I’m writing down the mistakes. I think all the given methods are good, in different situations.

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:03:12 +0000

By: Yael Szekely

Yael Szekely — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:36:08 +0000

I suggest the teacher writes down the student’s mistakes while he is talking, and does not interfere in the speech because this may confuse the speaker and stop him from going on. Later when the speaker finishes put it on the board and ask the students to correct it. By telling someone that he has made 5 mistakes, for example, and ask him/her to correct it – we usually get more mistakes instead of the correction. If you repeat the mistake the students usually remember the mistake and not the correction.