This is why, when I taught English as a foreign language, I never corrected the students, no matter what they said. I just responded to it, and laughed at any joke they tried to tell no matter how garbled, but never at anything else they said. And that was for two reasons: First, corrections don't work, at least not the way most people do them. Students don't really learn anything even if they think they want corrections. Second, to give them confidence. They could communicate, and they weren't going to embarrass themselves in class because I would never embarrass them.
It worked. The students loved it and talked a lot. And that's the only way to learn to speak a foreign language correctly. Talk a lot -- badly at first, but eventually it gets better just because you talk a lot.
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Date: 2014-12-21 09:03 am (UTC)It worked. The students loved it and talked a lot. And that's the only way to learn to speak a foreign language correctly. Talk a lot -- badly at first, but eventually it gets better just because you talk a lot.