Tuesday's Tip for Language Learning #27: Tactics and Strategies - Making Errors
Excerpt from Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star Tactics and Strategies Making Errors Making Errors Good learners make mistakes and errors. Lots of them. They are risk-takers, and risk-takers take missteps. An important difference between good learners and poor learners is that good learners embrace mistakes and learn from them whereas poor students are afraid to make mistakes, try to avoid them, generally make more from nervousness, and end up both speaking less and failing to develop good speaking skills. In gaining control over your mistakes, understanding the difference between mistake and error is critical. Mistakes occur when you produce something that is not correct by accident; you know how it should be said or written, but you experience a brain glitch so that out slips a misspelling, a wrong form, or a wrong word. Errors occur when you don’t know how something should be said or written, and you guess wrong. Both mistakes and errors are