MISTAKES AND FEEDBACK
MISTAKES AND FEEDBACK A. Student Makes Mistake One of thing that puzzles many teachers is why student go on making the same mistakes even when those mistakes have been repeatedly pointed out of them. Yet not all mistakes are the same ; sometimes they seem to be deeply ingrained, yet at other times student correct themselves with apparent ease. Julian Edge suggested that we can divide mistakes into three broad categories: Slip (mistake which they can’t correct themselves once the mistake has been pointed out of them), Error (mistake which they can’t correct themselves and which therefore need explanation), and Attempts (that is when the student tries to say something but does not yet know the correct way of saying it) (Edge 1989: Chapter 2). Of these, it is the category of error that most concerns teachers, though the student attempts will tell us a lot about their current knowledge and may well provide chances for opportunistic teaching. It is widely accepted that there are two dist...