 Observed Classes: 5/A-5/B-5F

 Students: 20-25
 Teacher: Aytün Ekendal
 Subjects: 9th Animal Shelter – Present Continuous Tense

6.HAFTA ERROR CORRECTION

Today, we had courses with 5th grades. Before beginning the course, firstly we introduced the
words that are related to the subject. After that, repeated them. Today we started to teach Present
Continuous Tense. I think teaching present continuous is much harder than the other tenses
because they see the new structure and it scares them. At first, everyone in the class seems
stunning but you can see that the more activities the children relax, the more relaxed. Especially
auxiliary verbs are so new for them. Generally, they forget to use it. Teaching grammar is much
harder than teaching anything else because they are Turkish and their language structure is
different from it. At first, most students are suffering from it. But day by day they become more
relaxed and they know what would be done.

If we continue with error correction, I think there were some problems with it. For example; one
of my colleagues asked a question in class and a student made a mistake. He asked ‘’ is it correct
or not’’ to the student and the student didn’t say anything. Asked again and no answer. This
process took 2 minutes. It was good but if students can’t answer we as teachers should do the
transition smoother through the answer. If we don’t do it properly, this can cause to increase the
affective filter and students don’t want to answer anymore. This should be done in the correct
way and we also should wait so much them. Wait time also should be done decently. Giving
much it, can cause a chaos. I observed two types of error correction. The first one was bad one
that I told you about. The second was good. Again, one of the students made a mistake. Using
good intonation and giving right wait time students answer the question correctly. Also, this
attracted my attention, the student who was corrected his mistake gently became more attractive
in class. Using the target language more kindly enhances students’ attraction in class and they
become more active.