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Slips, Errors and Attempts

IX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres a Tarragona

November 2011

Yolanda Scott-Tennent

yscottt@xtec.cat

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• Have a look at slide 5, as we didn’t have time to see it, but there is a link to some ideas for class correction activities provided on the web by ESLSITE.com. Some of them are easy to implement in your class and are bound to be effective.

• Hopefully, soon, we will all have “mistake-free” students !

• Regards, Yolanda

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Some internet pages to work on mistakes in class or as homework

• New English File Elementary Is there a mistake?

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/elementary/d_phrasebank/ef_elem_practicaleng01?cc=cz&selLanguage=cs

Memorizing language structures and vocabulary

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/elementary/g_ef_elem_builder?cc=cz&selLanguage=cs

Revision (past tenses)

http://elt.oup.com/student/practicegrammar/irreg/opg_irregular_01?cc=global&selLanguage=en

• Common Errors Quiz http://a4esl.org/q/h/9704/rv-mistakes.html

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• Frankfurt International School : Error corrrection http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/correctText/index.htm

• ESL Common Errors Workbook

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_faigley_penguinhb_1/0,7325,506655-,00.html

• Tests on Common Errors in English: Homophones and other confusing words

http://www.esldesk.com/common-errors-english

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Teacher oriented correction• Peer correction Back to back correction : http://eslsite.com/rd/Error_Correction/back_to_back_correction.html

• Pair work correction Future tenses : http://eslsite.com/rd/Error_Correction/future_corrections.html Sentence correction gymkhana http://eslsite.com/rd/Error_Correction/sentence_corrections.html

• Class activities Correct mistakes that everybody makes :

http://www.eslhandouts.com/materials/Mistakes%20that%20everybody%20makes.pdf Auditives Kynaesthetic correction ( younger groups)

http://eslsite.com/rd/Error_Correction/jump_left_right.html Missing word http://eslsite.com/rd/Error_Correction/missing_word.html Too many words http://eslsite.com/rd/Error_Correction/too_many_words.html

• Individual work One to one feedback grid http://eslsite.com/rd/Error_Correction/giving_feedback.html

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Some internet pages to have a look at

• Top 50 Funniest Innocent Mistakes in English

http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny-english-mistakes-bloopers/funny-english-student-mistakes/funniest-student-bloopers.html

• Golden Errors http://eslprof.com/start.htm

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Some books to leaf through…• Brians, Paul : Common Errors in English Usage - partially online

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

• Fitikides , T.J. Common mistakes in English by, Pearson Education.

• HEATON, J. & TURTON, N.D.: Dictionary of Common Errors (& Workbook), Longman, 1988.

• MERINO, J. : What is wrong, what is right ? , Alhambra, 1981.

• MURPHY, R. & RODELLAR, M.J.:”Las "trampas" del inglés. ¿Podemos evitar los errores típicos de los hispanoparlantes? Ed. de Vecchi, Barcelona, 1987.

• O'NEILL, M.: ¿ El inglés ? ¿ Sin problemas ! • Ed. Edward Arnold, 1989.

• VANN, R., MEYER, D. & LORENZ, F.O : Error Gravity: a study of faculty opinion of SL errors., TESOL Quarterly (18), 3:427:440,1984

• Guide Error Correction Exercises for Spanish-speaking Students of English Level c1 Book 1 and 2 by Michael

Kennedy-Scanlon, Juli Cebrián and John Bradbury : Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2010