UNIT 11 THE ROLE OF ERROR

 THE ROLE OF ERROR

     Errors in a language is a  normal way to notice where students need to pay more attention. Acquiring a language that it is not our mother tongue carry many advantages for us. Errors or mistakes help students to play and experiment new things in the acquisition process.  "Errors are an integral part of language learning" (John Bitchener, 2012). It is true because I remembered when I was in first semester I made a lot of mistakes in writing, reading and speaking  skills, but with the time I learned all those thing to correct an improve my knowledge. Moreover, teachers were there to teach us for example using in a good way sound patterns, lexis or grammatical structures. For that reason, we have to encourage our future students to be exposured at the language all the time , while they are in contact they can interact with others and learn from them, so in that way we avoid mistakes, with the time it gets fossilised and it is imposible to correct it.  Teachers needs to know when, how and where to correct mistakes first, they will give their students condifence then to start correcting them. "Second language learning transfer the form and structures of his native language to the target language" (Bernhard Kettemann, 1980). In other words, it happens frequently in learners when they have to write something, they think in Spanish but in English is different. It is in our hands as future teachers to develop langauge forms depending on  learning styles.

     Finally, I will write  all the mistakes in a notebook when they have an oral presentation, so it helps me to correct their mistakes, so I wrote this mistakes on the board and pronounce together in the correct way. Also, I present a big chart with the word, an example and the pronunciation, so it lets them to practice a lot.

     Watch  the following video based on errors or mistakes:

Bibliography

• Bernhard Kettemann, R. N. (1980). New Approaches to Language Acquisition. Germany: Gunter Nurr.

• Foreign and Second Language Learning

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• John Bitchener, D. R. (2012). Written Corrective Feedback in Second Language Acquisition and Writing. New York: Publication Data.

            Error correction at end of lesson

• YouTube,. (2014). Error correction at end of lesson. Retrieved 27 November 2014, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctmjFjJjmLY

Visit the following pages to find more information:

• How do you deal with fossilized errors and help students improve their accuracy? #ELTchat Summary 23/02/2011

Constantinides, V. (2011). How do you deal with fossilized errors and help students improve their accuracy? #ELTchat Summary 23/02/2011.ELTchat. Retrieved 27 November 2014, from http://eltchat.org/wordpress/summary/how-do-you-deal-with-fossilized-errors-and-help-students-improve-their-accuracy-eltchat-summary-23022011/

• The role of mistakes in language learning | Antimoon

Antimoon.com,. (2014). The role of mistakes in language learning | Antimoon. Retrieved 27 November 2014, from http://www.antimoon.com/how/mistakes-in-learning.htm