Category Archives: Error correction

25 error correction pairwork activities (TEFLtastic classics Part 49)

Posted on 14/07/2026 by alexcase

I use this activity so much that it is now worth a page of its own, freeing up my alternative error correction page for other ways of correcting mistakes. As well as dealing with problems that students are likely to … Continue reading →

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Alternative error correction

Posted on 12/03/2014 by alexcase

Update: 25 error correction pairwork activities moved here, to leave a more manageable number of other alternatives here. Loads of more interesting and more effective ways of correcting language errors. If you like anything here and want more, please support … Continue reading →

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Avoiding correction of spoken errors

Posted on 06/05/2012 by alexcase

… or at least avoiding ending each and every stage or lesson by writing a list of mistakes up on the board. Whatever your attitude to that CELTA-tastic activity, having alternatives has got to be a good thing, I reckon. … Continue reading →

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Scrap the marking code

Posted on 23/01/2011 by alexcase

I find laziness is the actual mother of invention, and when one day I decided that I couldn’t be bothered marking T for tense and P for preposition on my students’ work, I never ever went back. Now it’s: ____________________ = … Continue reading →

Posted in Error correction, TEFL, Writing | 8 Comments

Getting away with little error correction

Posted on 21/10/2010 by alexcase

As I said at the end of my controlled speaking post below, I seem to get away with doing very little error correction during or after speaking activities. I say that because there is general agreement in my school that … Continue reading →

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Why we really do what we do Part One- Error correction

Posted on 28/03/2010 by alexcase

For the last 18 months, I’ve been back to teaching classes of 12 to 16 adult students. I am also now teaching somewhere where some students instantly freeze up when they realise I am listening into their pairwork, some others hate to be interrupted, and most are happy … Continue reading →

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TEFL soundbite of the month

Posted on 28/02/2009 by alexcase

…is not strictly of the month at all, as it’s from a blog that was last updated in 2007, but it was such a great random find I thought I’d stick it up anyway: “In education, as in most professional … Continue reading →

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New Teaching English Reviews and Articles Dec 08 Part Two

Posted on 01/01/2009 by alexcase

Before I get onto the shameless selling of my own articles, I’d like to thank all TEFL.net book reviewers from 2008 (Kelly Quinn, Lara Promnitz-Hayashi, Dave Allen, Janis Crolla, Stephen Lodziak, Nicholas Whitely, Katie Cordes, Joshua Antle, Kaithe Greene, Paula Swenson, … Continue reading →

Posted in CLIL, EFL exams, ELT publishing, Error correction, Error correction games, Grammar, links, Materials, Teaching English in Asia, Teaching English in Japan, TEFL, TEFL games, TEFL reviews, TOEIC, Writing | Tagged | 3 Comments

An A to Z of Korean English (Konglish) expressions

Posted on 01/12/2008 by alexcase

UPDATE: List now much expanded and polished up, including more listing of when it is the same in other languages. I’ve also since done a list of common errors for Korean speakers, worksheets for Koreans that deal with some of … Continue reading →

Posted in English as an International Language/ Lingua Franca, Error correction, False friends, Konglish, Linguistics, applied linguistics and SLA, Teaching English in Asia, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Korea, TEFL, TESOL, Vocabulary | Tagged | 46 Comments

Christmas error correction

Posted on 17/12/2007 by alexcase

Will get onto combining grammar mistakes and Xmas lessons in a bit, but first:  I’ve become a bit of a cultural relativist in my old age, even accepting stuff that drives other people nuts like Japanese English, but this time … Continue reading →

Posted in Cultural differences/ cultural training, Error correction, Error correction games, Find someone who, Grammar, Grammar games, TEFL games | 3 Comments