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Anuradha Chepur
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myprofe
Joined: 29 Jun 2004
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Location: Madrid, Spain - Native Boston, USA
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 Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:12 am Post subject: My Experience with Correcting Students |
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| Anuradha Chepur wrote: |
In language pedagogy, when it comes to correction-methodology, there are two equally recognized schools of thought, with equal number of followers, having equal number of advantages or disadvantages. Both work well with some students and fall flat with some.
Wherever you go you will find some teachers from this school and some from that one. I only accidentally happened to indicate which school I happen to belong to. The last thing I would do is be judgemental about any one of the two. |
I'm glad that you have responded and I would hope that others would join in and give their opinions. It is not my intention to be judgemental but rather to defend my position with respect to correcting.
This reminds me of a class of beginners I had many years ago. There were approximately 10 teenagers and one elderly woman. When I called on the woman to read or answer a question she seemed to have much more difficulty than the rest of the students. In an attempt to minimize her agony I called on her less and when she did speak I was less demanding than I was with the others. In other words, I let things go and I didn�t correct all her mistakes.
Until one day she asked if she could speak to me at the end of class. She was furious. She reprimanded me for not correcting her and treating her differently. She said that she was there to learn and that if she suffered more than the others it was her problem, not mine.
On the way out of the classroom she told me that she was herself a teacher and that she needed to learn English to be able to help her students.
In this forum, as in others, few people divulge what their native language is and/or whether they are language teachers. If I were asking for help in a Spanish forum I would definitely want to know who the natives were in order to evaluate the advice I was given.
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