ESL methodologist Jeremy Harmer suggests developing critical faculties in students to recognize their own errors. Suggestions:
- Ask students to write something that will elicit the errors. Compare with a correct writing. Have you written it in the same way?
- Dictogloss – Hear a short text and recreate – compare with the script – are they the same?
- Can you find examples of someone else who has written the same kind of thing?
- Analyze how text is constructed. Is yours like this?
- Make a list of what they will evaluate before doing the task. Check the writing/oral recording so they learn to recognize the errors they are prone to.
- Collect a list of their own typical errors and check the list every time they write something.
