CATEGORIZING LEARNERS' MISTAKES

UNIT 29

Recognizing learners' mistakes is an elementary process in which each English teacher has to master. Seen like that, there are 6 categories of learners' mistakes. They are:

-        Pronunciation

-        Grammatical

-        Inappropriate register

-        Lexical

-        Spelling

-        Punctuation

From this unit, I have understood how students make the different mistakes during a lesson process. Moreover, we have to take into consideration the three types that a mistake has. They are slips, errors and L1 interference.

To demonstrate my understanding about it, I will show you an example. In a teaching situation, if there is a student who makes a slip mistake, the teacher has to know which mistake it is (Slip, Error, L1 Interference). He/she has to recognize it in order not to fossilize the student utterance and identify which category it is as well.

Inappropriate language used in the lesson will not develop students’ ability about it. It happens if a teacher does not know how to recognize learners’ mistakes he/she might let students make the same mistake all the time without having the opportunity to correct.

  

If you want to teach in a class how to recognize learners' mistakes, I provide you a lesson plan related to it. http://site.iugaza.edu.ps/nmasri/files/2012/02/3.3-Trainer-notes.pdf 

In addition, I will provide you a short quiz related to the learners' mistakes in order to practice. https://quizlet.com/77531557/test 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

- Site.iugaza.edu.ps,. (2016). Retrieved 23 January 2016, from       http://site.iugaza.edu.ps/nmasri/files/2012/02/3.3-Trainer-notes.pdf 

- (Mary Spratt, Alan Pulverness, Melanie Williams, 2011)