简介:Correctionisprovidedintheorallanguageclass-roomtohelplearnersidentifyproblematicareas,re-formulaterulesintheirminds,sospeakmoreaccu-rately.However,manycorrectiontechniquesseemtofrustrateandintimidateratherthanenlighten.Thisarticlereviewscurrentcorrectiontechniques.Itthendescribeshowcertainfeaturesoftheclozeprocedurecanbeadaptedintoasimplecorrectionprocedureef-fectiveinelicitingself-andpeer-correctionfromstu-dents.
简介:IntroductionTheattitudestowardsforeignlearners’errorshavechangedremarkablyfromthe1960storecentyears.Intheeyesofbehaviouristsinthe1960s,errorswereconsideredterrible.Teacherstriedtostructuretheclassroomsituationsoastomakeitideallyimpossibleforstudentstomakeerrors.SincetheevolutionofChomsky’stheoryandmodernism,teachershavebeguntobelievethatcommunicationinthelanguageismoreimportantthanasterileperfectionofform.andtherefore,theyhavebecomemoretolerantofstudents’errors.Makingerrorshasbeenrecognisedmoreandmoreasinevitableandasanessentialpartoflanguagelearning.