On this blog you'll find some topics related to the importance of learn EFL in our daily life.
Let's begginig with the first topic: SELF CORRECTION!!
Fisrt of all, its important for all of us to know the basic information.
Self Correction
What is it?
Self-correction is when learners correct themselves instead of a teacher doing it. Teachers can involve learners in self-correction to different degrees, by giving learners more or less guidance as to the location and nature of their errors, and examples of good use of language to compare their own to. (You can also check the information on https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/self-correction)
This is a very useful topic for the classroom. How would you encourage students to self-correct when learning at home?
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ResponderEliminargreat proposal, one of the most difficult skills to develop in to self correct ourselves. I hope to learn maybe about the different strategies to do it. Great.
ResponderEliminarI consider this is a topic that every teacher should know and implement in classrooms. Thanks for the space to get started into it.
ResponderEliminarBy the way, it is fascinating to think how our human condition of making mistakes can be an improvement factor when learning a language.
Very interesting topic inasmuch as it is utterly related to the development of metacognitive factors. Yet, I do think we still have so much to do in order to develop self-awarenesssince it requires more conscious and autonomous learners. I agree with Oscar: this aspect is one of the most difficult to enhance (even to "awake"). I would like to know how to do so from the very first stages of the learning process, especially in kids growing up in a culture like ours in which autonomy and self-awareness have been pushed aside for so long.
ResponderEliminarHi, Tatiana. I totally agree with Diego when he talks about the activationof this practice in our students. I would like you to share some of your experiences and maybe some tips to foster self-correction in students. Looking forward more content!
ResponderEliminarThanks for this information. Indeed, self-correction is one of the most difficult tasks, since it involves complex cognitive processes. Anyway, this practice should be fostered in the EFL classroom, as it highly improves the students learning. In this matter, there is another aspect that is very important: the way that teachers correct their students. It is evident that the students do not internalize self-correction practices when their experiences of being corrected in class are traumatic. That is why, as Gumbaridze (2012) states, teachers should find the best way to correct their students, according to their learning styles and preferences. Then, the students will not associate correction to harmful experiences and will start self-correcting.
ResponderEliminarRefernce: Gumbaridze, J. (2012). Error correction in EFL speaking classrooms. Taken from: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82123910.pdf
I think this topic is very important, sometimes in our role as teachers, we do not recognize the importance that students take into account their own mistakes, although it is not always so easy to achieve, even in our own cases. Due to that, I value the guides that you enunciate to allow that after gestures the students understand in which they are failing. However, you could expand the information a bit, in terms of tips or your own experiences.
ResponderEliminarI consider important the fact of developing self correction in students because they raise awareness of what mistakes the need to work on to imp´rove their speaking skills. I think you can focus in some important strategies to develop this skill. According to Hurd & Lewis (2008) when we develop self correction, we are also developing "selective attention, self management, self monitoring, problem identification and self evaluation" (p.279). It would be remarkable and important for your topic to explain how each of these steps happens and how it can be advocated in the learner so that, all EFL teachers that who visit your blog have a background of how iniciating a learning self vcorrecction process can be done. This, of course through some activities that can serve as an example.
ResponderEliminarThe reference for the comment can be found here: https://books.google.com.co/books?id=zHJjBQNGXUoC&pg=PA279&dq=self-correction+strategies&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiprsLcm-DdAhXIyVMKHb58A58Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=self-correction%20strategies&f=false
EliminarI find self-correction as a way for teachers to acknowledge students' progress and understanding of the language. As teachers, we want students to take ownership of their learning, correcting themselves when it is necessary. Although self-correction is a useful strategy to work on accuracy, how do you avoid over-correction in order to do not harm fluency processes?
ResponderEliminarI consider that if students try to correct themselves too much, fluency might be affected. Likewise, Krashen (as cited by Muskala, 2016) asserted that make frequent use of this strategy is not successful as learners are "too much preoccupied with correctness which might result in a lack of fluency in their performance" (p. 148)
Reference: Muskala, T (2016) THE ROLE OF LEARNER SELF-CORRECTION IN COMMUNICATIVE PERFORMANCE. Taken from: http://dlibra.bg.ajd.czest.pl:8080/Content/3459/12.pdf
Indeed, Self-correction increases awareness of the language. Students are allowed to identified mistakes and independently recall over what they said and provide the appropriate correction. However, self-correction might require time and consequently, this may struggle with the confidence of some students since they are focusing on accuracy, providing correction to all what student say. Despite this negative aspect, self-correction allow the student to correct their own mistakes serving as the measure to identify their progress on the language.
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