Teacher talk - Error correction | TeachingEnglish

In this video, the theme is ways of correcting mistakes. Rachael Roberts, David Petrie, Sylvia Guinan, Lizzie Pinard and David Dodgson give practical tips and strategies we can use to help our learners notice their own mistakes and encourage self-correction. Throughout this video, they provide a number of useful activities that can be used to help students in this area.

What activities do you use to help your students notice their mistakes? Why not write some of your favourite activities below in the comments.

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I am an English teacher in…

I am an English teacher in Pakistan and I am very concerned about error correction. I used the technique of self correction, peer correction and repeat and it really works.

My experience

Hello everyone!
We must be very careful with error correction. I usually return to peer and self correction, and avoid correcting on the spot.

Starting teaching English language

Hi. I am Guillermo Isaac Villar Mamani. I am from Peru. One of my dreams is teaching the English language because I would like to transmit all the knowledge I have. Greetings from Peru.

didacting planning

Hello, My name is Santiago Antonio Gutierrez Leiva and I am a second Semester Student of the Universidad de El Salvador (San Vicente) and we are learning how planning lesson for 10th grade and from first to eleventh and I would want to know some mistakes when teachers are planning lessons in public and private school.