Hadar Shemesh explains that making mistakes is a natural and unavoidable part of speaking a second language and argues mistakes are prime learning opportunities — but learners often react by shutting down or avoiding the mistake, which prevents corrective action and makes repeating the same errors likely.
Mistakes are a natural part of speaking a second language. There is nothing wrong about making mistakes. In fact, it's impossible to speak a second language without making mistakes. But this is why I'm saying that making mistakes is the best opportunity to learn if you do something about it. And this is where the problem starts, because people usually hate making mistakes. And then the moment they make a mistake, they just either shut down or. Or they kind of like, block it out. And they don't want to deal with it, and they don't want to think about it because it makes them feel crappy. But it's not productive because if you're not doing anything about it, you are likely to repeat the same mistakes.
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