Strategies for Correcting Oral Errors in Junior High School English Classrooms

Yao Wen

doi:10.63313/IJSSEH.9060

Authors

Yao Wen China West Normal University, Nanchong 637009, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63313/IJSSEH.9060

Keywords:

English Teaching In Middle Schools, Oral Errors, Error-Correcting Strategies

Abstract

Nowadays, in the process of junior high school students’ English learning, most students are weak in spoken language. And there are many types of oral errors made by junior high school students in English class, such as phonetic errors, lexical errors, grammatical errors and pragmatic errors. It is observed that most junior high school students and English teachers have positive attitudes towards errors and error-correction. They believe that errors are inevitable in the process of language learning. Therefore, how to treat these oral errors that may occur in the classroom is also the goal of English teachers. Some useful suggestions put forward in this paper will help English teachers to improve their teaching methods and optimize the teaching effect in junior high school English classrooms. Specifically, teachers should choose the right time for error-correction, take into account all aspects of the students' situation, adopt a variety of ways of error-correction and make full use of the oral errors made by the students in class as a resource for further learning.

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