THE SIGNIFICANCE OF

THE WAY wE TREAT

MISTAKES
• You can look ways of making language
exercises into real exchanges.
• You can teach language lessons the
medium of the target language itself.
MAKING LANGUAGE EXERCISES
INTO REAL EXCHANGES
 Wanting to communicate means
having a good reason for doing so.
We are not very interested in
telling someone something they
already know.
TEACHING LANGUAGE LESSONS
IN THE TARGET LANGUAGE
 The advantage of this second form of real
language use in the classroom is that contributes
to the process by:
• Encouraging the children to trust their instinct to predict
meaning in spite of limited linguistic understanding.

• Providing an Element of indirect learning in that the children

are not concerting on learning what they are listening to
but the brain is processing it nonetheless;

• Confirming that language is something you actually use ‘for

real’ and not just something you do exercises and games in;

• Increasing the amount of exposure the children get to the

language, while still remaining within the fairly predictable
and narrowly focused limits of classroom talk.
Thank you