[anne1980]

Hello to everyone!

I teach one-to-one English lessons to a beginner, a woman from Spain. I've had some problems when correcting her mistakes as she has shown herself to be a very defensive person and a perfectionist. After a while trying to sort this problem out, I have just come up with this technique:

1. Give her a list with the target vocabulary.
2. She will be asked to write a composition using all the
words and hand it to me the next day.
3. I will correct it at home for the next class.
4. I will give her the original composition without the
corrections I have been made and I will read the corrected
composition for her to listen for any changes.
5. To avoid confrontation I will giver her the corrected
composition so she can ask the questions she feels
comfortable with. Of course her original composition would
help me to look over the points she shows weakness in.

What do you think of it?? Any suggestions??? Any other ideas would be more than welcome!!!!