MOTIVATION AND ERROR CORRECTION

Materials: large slips, felt-tip pens, blu-tac

MOTIVATION
What is motivation? Elicit from class show slide 2
What makes students want to come to class to learn English? Think
of one good reason write it on the slip using large letters.
Read your reasons to the class stick it on the board for later
analysis.
Show slide 3: the students must categorise their reasons according to
the topics on the slide, e.g.if someone wrote to get a good job, this
would be under Usefulness and direct benefits of knowing a
language.
Slide 4 discuss
What can you do to motivate learners? Tell partners , share with class
Page 38, read key concepts
Page 40 practice test.

ERROS X SLIPS
What can demotivate learners? SS discuss, Elicit
Failure can be a major demotivating factor but theres a difference
between errors and slips. (slide 5)
What can cause errors? Slide 6
Errors are part of a DEVELOPMENTTAL PROCESS and are
perfectly normal!
Page 46 follow-up what are they talking about? Do you understand
them, despite the slips and errors?
Should we correct EVERY error a students makes? WHEN should we
correct students in class? (during an accuracy exercise, NEVER during
a fluency phase)
Page 46 pairs discuss
Page 47 practice task.