Interaction Patterns
This is a key benefit of using pair work in a large class.
What is increasing student-talking-time?
This is the teacher's role when they are walking around the room, listening to students without interrupting them.
What is a monitor?
The teacher gives a clear example of the target language.
What is modelling?
This type of mistake happens when a learner uses a correct rule but applies it to an exception, like saying "runned" instead of "ran."
What is overgeneralisation?
This is the term for a teacher repeating a student's incorrect sentence back to them with rising intonation, prompting them to self-correct.
What is echo correction?
This is the term for when students work together in groups of three or more.
What is group work?
This is the teacher's role when they are helping a group that is stuck by offering a hint or a suggestion.
What is a prompter?
The teacher uses language that makes learners feel positive about what they can do and which reduces their level of anxiety.
What is encouraging?
This is the term for a mistake caused by the influence of a learner's first language, like saying "I have twelve years" instead of "I am twelve years old."
What is L1 interference?
This technique involves the teacher saying the correct version of a student's utterance without explicitly pointing out the error.
What is recasting?
The students must walk around the room to talk to different classmates.
What is mingling?
This is the role a teacher takes when they are setting up an activity, giving instructions, and putting students into groups.
What is a manager?
The teacher chooses one learners to speak or do a particular task.
What is nominating?
This is a mistake that a learner makes accidentally due to a temporary lack of concentration, not a lack of knowledge, and they can usually correct it themselves.
What is a slip?
This is the best strategy for handling a mistake during a fluency-focused speaking task like a debate.
What is delayed correction?
This interaction pattern occurs when a teacher is presenting new material to the entire class.
What is whole class/lockstep?
This teacher role involves stepping back to let students lead an activity, while being available to help if needed.
What is a facilitator?
The teacher tells learners what to do before they start the activity.
What is instructing/giving instructions?
This type of mistake is a systematic error that a learner makes because they do not yet know the correct rule.
What is an error?
This is the term for when a teacher corrects a mistake by asking another student to provide the correct answer.
What is peer correction?
This is when two learners do a pairwork activity in front of the class.
What is open pairs?
This teacher role involves evaluating the language level and attitudes of the learners by using informal and formal assessment.
What is assessor?
The teacher helps learners think of ideas or remember a word or phrase by providing words, phrases, ideas.
What is prompting?
This is an error that has become (almost) permanent in a learner’s language and has become a habit.
What is a fossilised error?
A series of symbols a teacher may use to mark learners’ writing so that they can correct mistakes by themselves.
What is correction code?