What errors teach us
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2006v9n1p141Keywords:
Errors, Contrastive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Spanish as a Foreign Language.Abstract
Synoptic study of the presence of error in the teaching-learning process. Analysis of the real meaning of errors, of the attitudes in face or errors and of the possible causes of the origin of errors, as well as of students' different linguistic strategies that must be made up for with strategies in the classroom in order to correct, prevent and, as already mentioned, learn from past errors so as to avoid future ones. Aiming at orienting other similar practices, this article is concluded with a short practical activity commented and supplemented with reflections on the treatment of errors in class.