Video (YouTube) by Ming @ Agents of Speech arguing that modeling correct speech is more effective than directly correcting children. Emphasizes avoiding stressful corrections, offering brief feedback, and the danger that correcting then rewarding can reinforce incorrect forms. Presents modeling as a stronger alternative.
Are there any skills that you are currently learning and you get this kind of correction from. Think about as a, as a child, they're also human beings and they will feel the same as we do. We don't correct when it's going to make the child stressful, right? We only provide the feedback. So after they get it wrong, you say, oh, that's not right. Remember that? But supposed to be like this and that's it. And they don't have to correct their behavior or their speech or language. The third thing is modeling. Modeling is a lot stronger than correcting. And the reason is because when a child does something wrong, that's already done right. Let's say if the child says, want gummy bear me? Like let's say a kid who speaks like Yoda, once he or she says something wrong, and then you correct them and they still get whatever they want, then it becomes a whole routine of them getting it wrong, getting corrected, and then they get rewarded, right? So that's not very effective because you are actually rewarding him or her to get it wrong so that you can correct them and then therefore reward, right? So it's not very effective.
