TKT Unit 11 - The role of Error

Errors happen...

• When students try to say something that is beyond their current level of knowledge or language processing.

• When students are tired, worried, or when other physical or psycological interfere with their concentration.

• When students are pushed to hard and are not given enough time to think about their answers

• when students want to irritate the teacher and be made fun of.

Slips happen...

• When students try to say something that is beyond their current level of knowledge or language processing.

• When students are tired, worried, or when other physical or psycological interfere with their concentration.

• When students are pushed to hard and are not given enough time to think about their answers

• when students want to irritate the teacher and be made fun of.

L1 interference or transfer is...

• Language that is beyond learners scope

• influence of L1 on L2 which leads to errors

• errors on L1 caused by L2

• when students try to interfere in the class using L1

Developmental errors happen because

• Student's brains are still under develpment

• students are unconsciously working out, organizing and experimenting with language.

• the level of the activity is too hard.

• students come from a developed country.

" I goed" is an example of...

• overgeneralization error

• overgeneralization slip

• interlanguage

• L1 interference

What is interlaguage?

• learner's internal monologue when they are translating sentences in order to speak.

• learner's fixed language

• Learner's own version of the language which they speak as they learn, including errors.

• errors that student always makes and can't be fixed.

Interlaguage is...

• a natural part of the learning process. Students must be given a chance to use during fluency it to develop their speaking skills.

• a teacher's number one enemy, something that must be tackled at once and never be seen in a classroom.

• part of accuracy activities, where they are allowed to speak as they please.

• inter what?

In fluency activities, teachers should...

• interrupt students as soon as they make a mistake.

• let students use their interlaguage and only provide assistance when communication becomes hard or task is not progressing.

• save corrections for after the activity is finished, allowing students to use interlaguage and communicate freely.

• participate as actively as possible, giving constant feedback and providing his or her insights on task, so as to provide input.

Classes should strive to have a mix of both fluency and accuracy activities.

• True

• false

• it depends

• say what?

Fossilised errors are erros that...

• fossils found in the wrong geological strata.

• erros that learners don´t stop making even after having learned the language and being able to communicate using it.

• errors that should be corrected during fluency activities.

• errors when dealing with authentic materials.