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Let's define some concepts. According to chapter 2, 2.

2: What is the difference


between error and mistake? In your experience, what do you do when recognising
them in your students?
According to the text, a mistake is a kind of mistake slip in the mother tongue. A
learner or a native speaker makes a mistake when he or she says something
incorrectly but he or she knows the correct form and correct it. On the other hand, an
error cannot be self-corrected, it means that student does not know the correct form.
In class most of the time when they make a mistake and he or she corrected it, I
reinforce the correct answer by clarifying the correct one. On the other hand, when an
error it is presented and the student cannot correct it by him or herself, I tend to use
correction drills making emphasis on the error by saying the correct form of the
utterance.

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