Hi friends,
I want to share something with you and I know that reading long posts sometimes bore people so it will be a very short reflection instead of my task of the week.
Our mentor teacher applied a very useful activity last week. I previously wrote that the class is divided into two parts according to their English level and the second group needs to improve its pronunciation a little bit. Our teacher made the student in the first row begin to read the story and the student continued to read until s/he made a pronunciation mistake. When it happened the teacher made him or her stop and the other student began to read and it went on like that. The student who read the longest part was the winner of the game and the student liked the activity so much. Our teacher gives so much importance to pronunciation that she makes the students read a sentence sometimes even eight times until they read it correctly. I think it is vital and a must to make the students pronounce a word correctly. Do you agree with me or do you think that making the students read a sentence seven times may give harm to them in a way?
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Pronunciation
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hi nese,
at high school our teacher also would make us read until we made a mistake and this would be done everyday, this was very useful and you have caught a good point. and i think making a student read the same word until s/he reads it correctly is a good way of making learning long-lasting.
Neşecim, I think it is not a good thing to make a student read a word several times till s/he reads it in the correct way in the classroom, especially if the students are elementary or beginners. I think all of you know my reason: the false input issue. The other students may misspell this word because they heard it spelled like that several times...
but try to think that way dear, what about the wrong input when you do not make the student pronunce it correctly and s/he goes on to pronunce it in a wrong way? :)
May be you can try to correct it out of the class, privately with the student, so that you can manage it without giving false input to the others :))
oh my god! all my writings about this topic has gone :(:(:(
I said a minute ago:
if the teacher gives most of the time to correct pronouncation mistakes of the students when will she teach new things, and help the students acquire new skills or improve the current ones?
of course this error correction issue is really important. if the teacher doesnt correct the wrong output the student will go on like that. but teacher's focusing on the same mistake for such a long time makes the student's pronuncation perfect? no actually ı dont think so. cause the student will make the same mistake uncounciously until s/he internalize the correct form.
soooo.. in my opinion the teacher should correct the mistake once or maybe twice but at each occurence of the same mistake.
Neşe,
I think making students read a sentence several times is necessary. It is possible that they get bored; however, as your mentor teacher provides the students with the opprtunity to have fun at the same time, they will probably not get bored and learn how to pronounce the words correctly.
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