I do not actually have access to information about specific teachers, students or events at your school. My role is to discuss language teaching concepts in general.

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3. Why do we correct learners?

4. What factors do you take into
consideration to choose a
correction technique or
strategy? (name at least 3)

5. In what situation is over-correction good?

6. How can you help your students
become more autonomous in
their learning when making
mistakes?

7. Why is it important to use different
correction techniques and
strategies?

8. When learners are taking part in
role-plays or other oral fluency
activities, the teacher takes notes of
learners’ mistakes and correct them
after the fluency activity has finished.
What strategy is the teacher using?
a. Ignoring errors
b. Delayed correction
c. Echo correcting

9. When a student says “I eated pizza
yesterday”, the teacher repeats the utterance
correctly (“Wow, you ate pizza yesterday!”)
without stopping the fluency of the
conversation. What strategy is the teacher
using?
a. Recasting
b. Echo correction
c. Reformulating

10. An elementary school kid tries
to use a tense that he has not
studied yet (past perfect), and
makes a mistake. What do you
do?
a. Wait for the student to correct
himself
b. Give him a grammatical explanation
c. Ignore the error

11. A student mispronounced the word
“sheet” by saying / ʃ ɪ t/, instead of /
ʃ i: t/. The teacher decides to point at
the relevant symbols on the phonemic
chart. When is it correct to do this?

12. Give an example of
recasting

13. Which symbol represents that
there is a word order mistake?
a. V
b. Ag
c. WO

14. What do teachers use to indicate the
type of mistakes that the learner has
made in a writing assignment?

15. Why do teachers use
correction codes?
a. To let the learners make their own
corrections.
b. To avoid wasting too much time.
c. I don’t know.

16. Give 3 techniques of correcting
students (that appear in the
reading).

17. Give the reason why teachers
rarely correct all the mistakes
that students make according
to the reading.

18. The teacher decided to ignore the
mistakes which she heard students
making in their rople-plays.
a. To focus on pronunciation
b. To focus on fluency and give students
encouragement
c. To expose students to corrections without
them being conscious of it

19. The teacher put students into groups
and asked them to read and comment
on each other’s written summaries.
a. To encourage self-correction
b. To expose students to corrections
without them being conscious of it
c. To encourage peer correction

20. The teacher pointed at a symbol on
the phonemic chart.
a. To develop understanding of language
use by using a visual representation
b. To focus on pronunciation
c. To focus on fluency

21. The teacher drew a time line on the board
showing the difference between the present
simple and present continuous after several
students had used the wrong tense.
a. To develop understanding of language use
by using a visual representation
b. To focus students on features of connected
speech
c. To expose students to corrections

22. The teacher reformulated a
young learner’s utterance
a. To focus on pronunciation
b. To encourage self-correction
c. To expose students to corrections
without them being conscious of it

23. For which of the following disciplines
is Nobel Prize awarded?
a) Physics and chemistry
b) Physiology or medicine
c) Literature, peace and economics
d) All of the above

24. The hardest substance
available on earth is:
a) Gold
b) Steel
c) Platinum
d) Diamond

25. What is teacher´s Rubio full
name?

26. Name the three people that got
trapped in the elevator this
semester? (-8

27. Who is our future
godfather?