Hi everybody,
I want to share another thing with you and learn what you think about it. Our mentor teacher always shows the wrong version of something in the class, crosses it and then shows the correct form such as spelling of a word. She, for example, writes "musn't" on the board, crosses it and says it is wrong and writes the correct spelling. She even does this with sentence structure. She writes on the board that “She must speaks English in the class”, says that it is a common mistake among learners and crosses the “s” sound. I know that she is doing that to prevent such mistakes but I think it is wrong. If there is any mistake, we should correct it after it occurs but we again should not write it on the board or mention it a lot. I believe that we should not expose our students with the wrong usage no matter what our aim is. It may cause a lot of problems. What do you think?
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hi Nese,
I do not think that it will be too harmful, and it will also increase students' awareness about the wrong usages of that structure. thus I think although the students have not shown that mistake this does not mean that the teacher should never mention it.
I agree with you Neşe'cim. I think it is not good to give false input to the students, especially to the young learners and beginner or elementary, even intermediate students. It is better to repeat the correct version again and again, but never mention the incorrect version. May be, the teacher may say do not use ... there, say like this "......" but she shouldn't tell the incorrect sentence.
as far as I understood,the teacher teaches the wrong usage first.this is in fact quite odd to me because ı hadn't seen and heard such a technique, but it seems that it will cause more problems than benefits.nevertheless, it is worth researching.for now, I can just think that she seems to be exaggerating the policy "learning from your mistakes":)
Ersin, you have actually misunderstood the process. of course she does not teach the mistakes first but shows the wrong version before students make mistakes and says that do not do that, and also when a student does a mistake, she writes it on the board and cross it. what I say is that although she tries to say "don't do that", mentioning the wrong version or writing it on the board (thought crossed) may create problems. students may learn it wrongly.
Neşe,
I totally agree with you. Of course, we should correct the mistakes. However, showing the wrong version, especially on board, may pose different problems. Students may remember what the teacher have written on board but may not remember the reason. If you need to show the mistakes in detail on board, I advice you to use colored board markers. If you always use the red one for the mistakes and pay attention not to use that color for other purposes, they may code what you show accordingly. By so doing, you may prevent the misunderstndings. When they happen to remember the structure, and go back to the day you mention about it, they may visualize the whole event and realize that once again.
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