THE ROLE OF ERROR
Everybody
in the world has an important role; in this case let´s talk about the role of error in to
the learning process, but errors occur when learners are not paying attention
or are not concentrated on what they are learning, the good thing here is that
if students realize those errors they can be corrected. There are two main
reasons why learners make errors. The first one is because it is influenced
their mother tongue
or first language,
especially into the grammatical
structures or into the sounds. This error is called interference. The second
reason is because they do know or they do not realize that errors are there
when they speak or when they write about something. In this case we call this
error as developmental
error. For example three-year old children usually say tomorrow
instead of yesterday. Something good at this pion is that while learners are
growing up, they are improving the way they speak. ”In most teaching situations
a frequent appearance of errors is consider as failure either in the process of
learning or in the process of teaching. However, focusing on errors can provide
very telling and informative insights regarding the process of SLA”. (Llach, 2011) It means that failure
is something found at any situation. Eventually, errors are an inseparable part
of the learning process, therefore the only way to avoid errors would be avoiding
writing or speaking when learning a foreign language. Also, having errors and
correcting them is an excellent way to show progress of learning a language
How will
you apply that knowledge in a teaching situation?
As errors cannot
be avoided, we as teachers cannot avoid correcting them, for this reason
students need to be exposure
to the language. I would like to work on it through games for example in
oral presentations while student is talking about something I may record it
without letting that student to notice that he or she is being recorded, and
later give general feedback
in order not to make that student to feel bad but I would like him or her to
notice that
everybody can make those mistakes so nobody will feel upset or ridiculous. Another
strategy is to take note of the mistakes and at the end make them reflect on
what the correct way to say or write something is, it would be perfect if some
of them can notice their own errors. I will motivate my students to accept that
errors are a normal part of learning process.
Bibliography
Llach,
M. P. (2011). Lexical Errors and Accuracy in Foreign Language Writing.
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