Unit 11 - The role of Error

UNIT 11

THE ROLE OF ERROR

  

 

      While I analyzed this unit I learned the difference between error and slip. To this, error is when trying to say something that is beyond a current level of knowledge and slips are just result of tiredness, worry or laziness. 

       To this there is a big influence of the learner’s first language or mother tongue, in small sound pattern, lexis or grammatical structure. As a result, to get a greater accuracy we may help our students by providing some interaction games like a jigsaw puzzle, where they have to put them in order to have sense.

       However, it is also necessary to never correct them all the time because it will frustrate them and will stop participating. Even if students are applying the language with overgeneralization, because it will disappear by time to time and not just by telling them “Incorrect!”.

     

      It is necessary to do not make them also worry about perfection, since even native speakers don't care if you say things perfectly or not as long as you can get the message across. To this, we all as teachers should let them talk as long as they can be clearly understand and be get the message they are trying to get across. However, if the message becomes unclear, we should help them when it is appropriate to do not confuse the rest of the class.

     Better still, we should work on avoiding students getting fossilized, because those cannot be erase or improved therefore we should make our students conscious of the errors they have by correcting them with tact and reformulation by just correcting them without drawing the learner’s attention to their mistakes when we repeat their words correctly to avoid demotivate them.

References

Ali Akbar Khansir, Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol. 2, No.5, pp.1027-1032,May 2012

http://www.ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/tpls/article/viewFile/tpls020510271032/494

Julio Foppoli, The Role of Errors in Second Language Learning, 2014

http://www.esaudio.net/spanish-articles/the-role-of-errors-in-second-language-learning/

Tomasz P. Szynalski, The role of mistakes in language learning, 2013

http://www.antimoon.com/how/mistakes-in-learning.htm