If you’re a TEFL teacher then chances are you have had to deal with Fossilized Errors in your classroom, especially if you deal with older students or those past the Beginners stage.
Basically a fossilized error is a mistake a student has made so many times that it has becomes part of their natural speech.
This article, then, is all about how to deal with these kinds…
Correcting Spoken English is the way in which student errors are corrected as they are speaking.
Before beginning though, remember that all students will make mistakes. It is part and parcel of learning a language (and bear in mind that children learning their first language will make mistakes also; it is a natural part of the process).
When to Correct
At one end of the spectrum are…