Correction: A Positive Approach to Language Mistakes
CORRECTION is an awareness raising book for every teacher to consider their own attitudes to the hottest issue in the language classroom - mistakes and how teachers should react to them. It is ideal for pre-service teachers courses.
Bad Form - Social Mistakes and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
What--other than embarrassment--could one hope to gain from prolonged exposure to the social mistake? Why think much about what many would like simply to forget? Bad Form argues that whatever its awkwardness, the social mistake--the blunder, the gaffe, the faux pas-is a figure of critical importance to the nineteenth-century novel.
No one becomes a contract killer and expects to collect their pension. Sooner or later, even the best make mistakes. Even Martin Fallon, the most ruthless of them all, when he crosses powerful crime boss Jack Meehan.
It is now generally recognized that no adult foreigner is likely to acquire a really good pronunciation of the English language unless he makes a scientific study of the English speech-sounds and their distribution in connected speech. The present book has been prepared -with a view to giving the foreigner all the information of this nature that he is likely to require for learning "educated Southern English" as described in § 24. The greater part of the book is devoted to a discussion of the mistakes which are commonly made by foreigners in the pronunciation of English, and methods are indicated for correcting these errors.
