According to Lima (2009, p. 77) “o professor não deve ter medo de corrigir, pois há sim o que corrigir na pronúncia dos nossos alunos. A questão é o quê e em que medida.”
In your opinion, during a conversation class, for example, when a teacher must correct the mistakes in the students’ pronunciation?
Lima, Joceli Rocha. (2009). “Correção de pronúncia e a identidade do aluno de letras”. In: Diógenes Cândido de Lima (org.). Ensino Aprendizagem de língua inglesa: conversas com especialistas. São Paulo: Parábola Editorial, p.69-78.
This is a very important and complicated question. I think the correction is necessary, but must have the sensitivity to do without embarrassing the student so he would not be embarrassed to express themselves. On the other hand, I've had teachers that had a horrible pronunciation and made many mistakes, as everyone makes. So I think the teacher should make sure their pronunciation according to the phonetic and then correct a student. We need to be prepared to teach and graduate very good English speakers.
ResponderExcluirI agree with the author. It's very important to correct the pronunciation mistakes of the students because a foreign language is learned well if it is taught according to its phonetic rules. Also, my point of view is similar to Dani's when she says that the correction can not embarrass the student. In addition, the English teachers must have a deep knowledge about the language’ structure and they have to observe each student during the conversation classes.
ResponderExcluirWell, I think the teacher should correct the student in a conversation but do not all the time. The teacher can repeat the wrong sentence in a correct way for example. I agree with Dani when she said that the teacher have to correct the students without embarrassing they. Some teachers are very rude and let the students demotivate.
ResponderExcluirI believe the correct pronunciation of the students is necessary and very important. but it must be done sensitively and without constraints. a good correction in due time can greatly help students of foreign languages.
ResponderExcluirHello, dear friends. I agree with the author too with relation to the importance of correcting pronunciation mistakes. But, I believe that when we are teaching, it is very important to let students speak in a free way, I mean, helping students to try to speak without fear. The teacher can write down some observations and, after that, the teacher can talk to the students about their needs. This is what I think and I don't see any problems with this kind of attitude. I really hope you are not afraid of speaking in your English classes, because I believe we only learn when we try to do something and we also can learn if or when we make mistakes. We must take risks for that. Thanks for this opportunity.
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Maria Izabel (Belinha)!
It's too difficult to do, but I believe the most important thing is the communication and understanding....Teachers may can correct mistakes if the message isn't be comprehend.
ResponderExcluirI think it's not necessary to correct pronunciation all the time. I think it's important to correct students when the comprehension is harmed.
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ResponderExcluirI agree with the author, because the correction of the mistake in the class is part of the learning process. But I also think it will depend a lot on the good sense of each teacher to know the rigth time to correct his/her pupil.
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ResponderExcluirI think that the teacher must correct the students when they say something wrong, but not all the time. For example, if the student always pronounces a word in a wrong way, the teacher must correct him/her, because it's an error. If the student pronounces a word wrongly one time, it can be just a mistake. When the students don't understand what one is saying, the teacher must correct his/her pronounce to make the others understand. That's my opinion.
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Well... I can still remember my classmates, when we were very young. The ones who were very shy used to feel extremely horrified and blushed if our teacher corrects our mistakes in a rude way... for example, during our speech or stopping us… it’s horrible.
ResponderExcluirThis point we have been discussing, makes me remember Krashen's theory, specially his affective filter hypothesis. In my opinion, we can really “embarrassed them”, like Ludmilla said, and blocked his efforts to speak better and better.
Something that uses to help is to ask the same thing to another student, trying to make him/her works as a good example to the students that are committing mistakes.
And, I think it’s very useful to make the other students understand they (we) are all learning, and the common laughs during a conversational exercise can be harmful and embarrassing for most of us. They have to be conscious about it, and usually/especially in the beginning, they are not… So, it’s important to sensitize them.
Thanks a lot by all contributions!!!!
We must corret when the student persists in the error.
ResponderExcluirLaurenci
To learn a new idiom is necessary to be humble, therefore the teacher must correct the mistakes in the students always.
ResponderExcluirBianca Magalhães Wolff.
so, Depends on why there is students who feel inhibited with correction of pronounced in public but I think necessary for sure.
ResponderExcluirCamilla Nobre Santana
I believe rather that the teacher should correct the student, because even teach the correct way is one of the roles of the teacher. But it is important that this correction is made after assessments or presentations will not cause embarrassment to the student. Making the relationship of the student / teacher a constructive journey to the final goal is that learning a second language.
ResponderExcluirHi!!! In my opinion, mistakes must be corrected but not during a conversation. During my classes, I usually write the words down and later I write them on the board and ask the student to read them. Sometimes, I also say a sentence or more using the words I wrote. Generally the students realize they made mistakes.
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