Error correction
What is the best way to deal with language learners' errors? Opinions on the usefulness of corrective feedback have been in a state of flux for many decades. However, there is strong research evidence that error correction fosters second language development by activating attention, cognitive comparison and noticing the gap, assisting the transformation of declarative knowledge into procedural and automatized knowledge, and acting as a priming mechanism. How do you correct your students' errors? Here are some ideas.
