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This goes with the expectations that learners should be understood by primarily on what they say and then by the accuracy of how they say it.
Errors should exclusive be corrected by teacher when the individual is linguistically ready to accept the correction. There have been several studies regarding this topic and the end result is that basically this topic does not focus on the theoretical implications but rather what is considered practical for language development. The main conclusions are that certain types of errors are much more likely to be treated than others: discourse, content, and lexical errors receive more tending than phonon-logical or grammatical errors. (Ellis 585)
There are many individual errors that should not be treated or regarded important on behalf of the learner. Sometimes, language teachers think students’ errors are fossilized and therefore, they do not know how to treat them. Some teachers correct errors when errors have not even been made. (Ellis 585) There is a wide gap between the general consensus of how errors should be treated and what is regarded as linguistically advantageous for the ordinal language individual with regard to his or her inter-language or, the target language that is in process of being formally acquired.
When teachers are consistent with regard to their correction of individual errors, then the chances of learners becoming more sensitive to how they express themselves in the classroom will be stronger. Given the inconsistent facts regarding error treatment, this might declare that error treatment is often not successful, but it is possible that by raising learners’ consciousness it contributes to acquisition in the long run (Ellis 586). the purpose of correcting errors should be used exclusive in cases when it is beneficial for the learners’ discernment of the material.
A good ESL teacher is one who can provide the tools for the language individual so that she or he becomes more linguistically and semantically aware of the language being used when communicating with others. Therefore, helping the students become aware of his/her errors is much more conductive to helping adult ESL learners acquire a ordinal language because they are constructing their discernment of the ordinal language as they become more aware of the nuances and idiosyncrasies of learning a ordinal language.
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