Error correction: How to correct? When to correct? When not to correct?

Students’ mistakes are usually seen as something bad, a sign that there´s a problem in the classroom. Our primitive reaction as teachers is to correct students as an attempt to help them to achieve what we consider to be correct English.

My talk aims at investigating students’ mistakes and how to implement useful techniques to really provide our students with the help they might need. Among other subtopics, I intend to discuss:

• What are the main types of mistakes?
• What triggers them and what do they really mean?
• How can we deal with different error types in different lesson stages?
• How to use effective correction techniques?

Júlio César Fagundes has been an EFL professional for 10 years. At the moment, he is responsible for training new teachers at English in the Office, where he also teaches business students (one to one and groups). He holds TKT (modules 1, 2 and 3), CELTA and FTBE (Further Certificate for Teachers of Business English).

When?

16/09/2011
sexta-feira - 10h às 12h
Palestrante:
Júlio César Fagundes

Where?

Disal Barra Funda - São Paulo
Av Marquês de São Vicente, 182
Estacionamento gratuito. Vagas limitadas. 
Próximo ao metrô Barra Funda

Convidados: Profissionais do ensino de inglês em escolas de ensino fundamental e médio, institutos de idiomas, universidades. Professores particulares. Estudantes de letras (inglês).

For more information:

http://www.disal.com.br/eventos/disal/index.asp?A1=665706814123328&A2=C&eventos=16092011