I observed an advanced level speaking class back in late October, and it was by far my favorite class. They had apparently performed a speaking assignment a couple of days before the class because they were given back error corrections on their speeches. The format of the error corrections I found to be intriguing, and what I can assume to be very difficult to create. One of the 200 hour TEFLer students (I sadly forget his name) spoke with me about how to correct errors when collecting speech samples.
He told me that essentially, you don't write the whole speech out, only the parts that contain errors. He then further explained that you want to write the error out in its entirety. This meaning that you write the whole sentence out, and without circling the error hand it back to the students so they can see if they can acknowledge the error they made. I found this to be a brilliant way for the students to start developing better skills in both grammar and speaking! They also did the reviewing of errors in pairs, which made the class more engaging.
I asked the 200 hour TEFLer if becomes difficult to correct errors in speech samples if the student's accent is so challenging that you can't even understand them. He said "Yes. At that point, I write up to where I can't understand them anymore, and ask the student to tell me in class what he/she was aiming to say." I think this is a pretty effective way to handle that problem. Overall, the class was great! I had a lot of fun walking around with the students and helping them with pronunciation and grammar errors.
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