Summer 2004 - Course for Teachers of English
"The Story that errors tell"

 


FEBRUARY 19, 20 and 21, from 8:30 to 12:30

“THE STORY THAT ERRORS TELL”
Errors have traditionally been considered signs of failure. When a learner is tested, errors normally bring down the test score – no matter their type. However, many errors are positive signs of learning and should be exploited rather than penalised.

By Ana María Rozzi de Bergel
Teacher of English, Licenciada en Gestión Educativa, Universidad CAECE. Coordinator of the Licenciatura en Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés, Universidad CAECE. Coordinator of the English Department at CENTUM, a Trinity College London’s teacher-training centre. Author of the first Applied Drama syllabus for teacher education. Her main line of research has been the analysis of learners’ interlanguage as a tool for understanding learning hypotheses and unveiling the learner’s built-in syllabus.

COURSE CONTENTS

  • Session 1: Removing the stigma from learners’ errors
    a. Errors as learning tools. Definition of error. The role and significance of errors for learning a second language.
    b. Errors as communication strategies, as learning strategies and as coping strategies.
    c. Types of errors. Productive and unproductive errors.
    d. Teacher-induced and method-induced errors
  • Session 2: Using error analysis to assess progress.
    a. Definition of learning hypotheses. Brief discussion of the role of conceptualisation, imagination, creativity and association styles for language learning.
    b. The correspondence between error types and learning hypotheses and its implication for language teaching and learning.
    c. Error analysis as an instrument for assessing progress.
  • Session 3: Teaching the learner’s personal syllabus.
    a. Fossilisation or language ceiling. Determining factors. Teaching learners who are at their language ceiling.
    b. Error analysis to unveil a learner’s personal syllabus.
    c. Exploiting errors as items in the learner’s built-in syllabus rather than correcting them as undesirable elements.

Cost:
Early enrolment, December 2003: $ 80.-
February 2003: $ 100.-

For further information and distance-learning option, contact arozzi@caece.edu.ar

 

  
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Summer 2004 - Course for Teachers of English
"The Story that errors tell"
 
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