TEXT 1 An English teacher analyzes the written work of her ...
An English teacher analyzes the written work of her class of basic level students and notices that some errors are recurrent, related to orthographic and/or phonological similarities to the mother tongue (L1), such as: (1) the transit in São Paulo is bad; (2) when she was a child, she studied at a public college; (3) I want to study a stranger language. The challenge for the teacher is to find strategies to facilitate the understanding and correction of these errors in order to help her students develop greater autonomy and awareness of them, as well as to promote more effective learning.
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Errors, once considered obstacles in behaviorist theory, are now recognized as an essential part of learning. This requires a pedagogical approach that values them as teaching tools and encourages students to learn from them and become autonomous in their correction and learning. If we want our students to become good fishermen, we need to use a correction method that teaches them how to fish without giving them the fish.
FIGUEIREDO, F. J. Q. Aprendendo com os erros – uma perspectiva comunicativa do ensino de línguas. 4ª edição: São Paulo: Parábola, 2023 (adapted).
In view of the information provided, the teacher should