Agenda

1. A little reflection

2. What?

3. When?

4. Who?

When is a Mistake a Mistake, and

5. How?
When is it a Learning Opportunity?
Sarah Hillyard

Agenda

1. A little reflection_

2. What?

3. When?

4. Who?

5. How?

“Errors are clues

to inner processes,
windows into the mind”
Kroll and Schafer
 Quiz! Agenda

1. A little reflection

2. What?_

3. When?

4. Who?

5. How?

WHAT to correct?

What are some typical mistakes

your learners make?

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WHAT to correct? WHAT to correct?

You like Vegetables • Current ability? Taught it / Not taught it yet?

apples? Triangle
• Selective correction?
/veʤeˈteɪbəlz/
/traɪˈæŋɡ(ə)l/
• Persistent mistakes?
She play
football. • Does it hinder communication?

Its a whale blue.

 Agenda WHEN to correct?

1. A little reflection • Never

2. What? • On-the-spot correction

• Delayed correction (Error correction step)

3. When?_

4. Who?

5. How?

WHEN to correct? Agenda

1. A little reflection

2. What?

3. When?

4. Who?_

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5. How?

WHO does the correcting? Agenda

1. A little reflection
• Teacher
2. What?
• Peer/group correction

• Self-correction 3. When?

4. Who?

5. How?_
 HOW to correct? HOW to correct?

• Indication • Whiteboard race

• Repetition with intonation
• Sort mistakes
• Elicit
• Recast/ Rephrase • Boo or cheer
Derek Spafford
(Teacher trainer with Macmillan Education Asia,

• Reduce options https://www.teachingideasasean.com/blog/what-

when-who-and-how-to-correct)

• Make it visual/Use gestures (The finger method)

• Use sounds
• Collect mistakes
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Agenda

1. A little reflection
What is your
2. What?
biggest take-away?
3. When?

4. Who?

5. How?

THANK YOU!
Sarah Hillyard