Quote Originally Posted by Rtyom
Quote Originally Posted by TATY
Teachers have to strike a balance between over-correcting students and under-correcting students. By that I mean, if a teacher corrects every little mistake the student makes, and at the beginner's level that's a lot, then the student will become demoralised, and also it would just take too much time. But if the teacher doesn't correc the student enough, then the student won't learn correct pronunciation. I find most teachers don't correct students enough.
As far as things are concerned, this is a big topic to discuss. I think that this is the problem of Western education. The perosnality of a student is more valuable there than at our place. And, as a consequence, they also grant more freedom to students, and the latter improvise making numerous mistakes.
It's nothing to do with Western Education, well, at least not when we are talking about correcting pronunciation. I helped out at English lessons in a Russian university and the teacher, a Russian, had near-perfect English pronunciation. The Russian students' pronunciation varried. When I had converstation sessions with them I didn't correct every mistake. Because for them practically every vowel was not quite right. I only corrected them when the word was unrecognisable. or when it sounded like a different world. The Russian teacher did the same. If you correct every little pronunciation mistake it would take 10 minutes to say one sentence.

My Ukrainian teacher over-corrects, and it drives me insane. Speaking a foreign language requires confidence and when someone pointd out a mistake in every word you say, how can you become confident in speaking that language?