TEACHER OBSERVATION TASK 6:
ERRORS AND CORRECTION
Ruth Hamilton
This task focuses on learner errors in oral production and on ways that the teacher or learners deal with them.
Note down some student errors.
Categorize each error (e.g. wrong tense, meaning unclear, grammar, wrong phoneme).
Describe in detail what happened next.
For example:
| Error: I am agree Type of error: grammar - unnecessary word Correction: The teacher held up 3 fingers (to represent the 3 words of sentence) and 'picked out' and 'threw away' the middle finger. Student looked a bit puzzled, then repeated the sentence without the middle word. Teacher smiled, said 'good'. |
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Some considerations:
Did anyone notice that there was an error?
Who?
Did the teacher do anything?
Did the student do anything?
Did the other students do anything?
Did anyone indicate there was an error?
Who?
Did anyone correct the error?
Who?
How was it corrected?
(adapted from Jim Scrivener, 1994)
When you have completed this sixth observation task, move onto Observation Task 7.