Big words!!!

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DETECTIVE CARDS

Here goes some cards you can use to play detective with your students. The instructions are in the file. Hope you have as much fun as I have playing it!!!



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Think it through...

WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG??

I often question myself everytime I have to correct a student of mine. Am I doing the right thing? Linguistically speaking, there`s very little that can be considered wrong, but despeite this, we keep correcting students over and over.

It`s obvious that learning a second language is different than learning the first language. Is that why we have to tell our students that they are wrong when they mispell the th, even knowing that everybody would understand them? How can we know when to correct and when not to? For me it`s kind of instinctive. Part because I was trained in certain methodology that describes a fluency practice as being "correctless" and also because I have certain experience.

The problem here is that I want more. Not that I`m asking for a manual entitled "When to and when not to correct your students", but other teachers opinion would be really nice. I think we are still to determine what the limits for correct are. What do you think? Correct them like a grammar book, or let them speak despite the "errrorrss".