Thoughts on correcting someone while speaking

(edited July 2024)

This morning in class, the question of correcting came up again. 

A colleague, who subbed for me while I was on vacation, seems to have a noticeably different practice from my own concerning ‘corrections’ and three of us started talking about this after class. They asked me if I could correct them more. My colleague was said to have corrected them quite extensively.

The issue of correcting someone while speaking raises a lot of questions. Most importantly: How do we learn? But also: what is it that we are actually learning? What is or should be in focus? Continue reading →