Many learners and teachers do their best in avoiding mistakes, when in fact we should like and welcome them. By analysing students´ mistakes teachers can observe how learning is taking place and this way through feedback help students reformulate their trials.
These are sentences taken from the book "Language Hungry" by Tim Murphey which can make us think about this topic:
"Mistakes are actually wonderful things; they can even help the learning process."
"If we´re not making mistakes, we´re not going anywhere" Gordon Forward
"Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection" Soichiro Honda
"If I make a mistake, it´s okay - I don´t have to be perfect."
If we want to learn English well, we have to see our mistakes as a necessary part of learning.
8 comments:
Hi Annamaria!
It's a good start.
The best of luck!
Nina
Great start to your blog!!! I'm really looking forward to reading more here :-)
Illya
Dear Anamaria,
I think it's we adults who are more self-conscious about making mistakes. And we pass this fear on to students. If we were less worried about making mistakes, we (and our students too)would be more self-confident.
Warmly,
Claudia
As you will know the term "interlanguage" replaced the expression "mistake" - as applied to language. I like the focus of the study of interlanguage. It's a study of the steps on the way to mastery. And these steps, interlanguage, are seen positively, a record of progress, whereas "mistake" is moralistic and means WRONG!
Dennis
hi ana maria!! when I make a mistake I feel sad, but I have to accept this because everybody makes mistakes and this is part of learning.
bye bye
hi ana maria!!!!
when I make a mistake I feel bad because I don't wanna to make mistakes but I try to learn with this because is part of life.
bye
I´d like to thank Débora and Alice, my first students to help me on this project.
Ana Maria
Hi Ana!
For me, to make a mistake is part of the learning process. From every mistake I learn how not to do it next time. I don't feel frustrated and sad because I'm always building up my knowledge.
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