Assessor
A major part of a teacher’s job is to assess the students’ work, to see how well
they are performing and how well they have performed. The different types of error
correction must be distinguished. At the accurate reproduction stage, where the
teacher is totally in control, s/he must be correcting each student error or mistake.
Where students are involved in immediate creativity (at the production stage of the
lesson) gentile correction or delayed correction should be used lest the teachers
should make students inhibited.
A distinction between two kinds of feedback must be made content feedback
concerns an assessment of how well the students performed the activity as an
activity rather than as a language exercise. Form feedback, on the other hand tells
students how well they performed in terms of the accurate use of language. Content
feedback should usually come first and the teacher must decide when form
feedback is appropriate and when it is not. It is vital for the teacher to be sensitive
and tactful to his/her students in his/her role as assessor and to start assessment
always with the positive feedback