UNIT 29 CATEGORISING LEARNERS´ MISTAKES

Learning a language is a process really nice to follow because it involves culture and society and for many reasons students are exposed to many variations of the language and is able to make mistakes. Mistakes that sometimes are conscious or unconscious. In some cases mistakes can be because of tiredness, or because students do not know the language. According to the context students can make mistakes, because some utterances of the language vary form one culture or another. A different problem is when students mix their mother tongue with the target language, they are interference mistakes. In other opportunities, learners are afraid of making mistakes and they do not speak, there is when the teacher has to take part motivating the students.