Unit 29: Categorizing Learners’ Mistakes

     Mistakes are common in a learner’s process to reach a communicative level at using language as natural as their mother tongue. However, we as teachers have to take into account some aspects as recognizing and categorizing our learners’ mistakes to know when to act to correct any of them and if it necessary to be corrected. Sometimes, there are some issues that students have to deal with and that is what creates mistakes, errors or slips in students such as being afraid of talking in front of the others or giving a speech for a large group of people even if a student has got a dominance at using the target language. There are some other mistakes such as using the wrong register and other factors may create inaccuracy in oral mistakes. On the other hand, it is good that students make mistakes because we could identify the problems they have and help them to improve at the right time; we can get information from their language through homework, tasks, observations and informal assessments to keep a record of their progress

I include a link I consider has extra and really useful information for a teacher about students’ mistakes:

http://www.antimoon.com/how/mistakes-in-learning.htm