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Students should be encouraged to take risks. Errors provide evidence that a student is in fact making an attempt to experiment with
the use of language.
How a TEFL teacher goes about correcting errors is determined to a large degree by the
aims of the activity in question.
If the main aim of the lesson is to improve the accurate use of the English Language, then
immediate correction be appropriate.
If, on the other hand, the main objective of the lesson is fluency, then immediate
corrections would interrupt the normal flow of ideas.
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https://www.itefli.com/teflblog/error-correction-in-the-tefl-classroom/
