Correcting mistakes. It is important to say I was born and bred in Russia, former USSR, where it was forbidden to teach speaking whatsoever. Since the political situation was complicated to say the least, the country was behind the Iron Curtain thus nobody was allowed to leave it unless there was a good reason for that. So no speaking let alone listening. What we had was a boring textbook, reading, translating and a lot of writing. I acquired all my speaking skills when I started teaching with the Oxford and Cambridge materials, which were authentic and interesting. What I did was do all the students' work myself before I stood up in front of my (adult) audience. Like Roi (as he mentioned in his post), I was scared stiff of making mistakes, but I was not a pupil, I was a teacher. Who was there to correct me? Unlike USSR, Israel, correct me if I'm wrong, is a country where there is a lot of exposure to the English language, we have all sorts of population from all the corn...
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