Question

A group of oil refinery supervisors from the United States attend a class on Spanish language every Thursday afternoon. They learn by repeating words and phrases while the instructor corrects any pronunciation errors. After each correction, the refinery supervisors repeat the word or phrase with the correct pronunciation before focusing on the next word. This is an example of _____.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer to the question, would be: Immediate confirmation.

Explanation:

In learning a new language, there are different techniques that teacher and students use in order to enhance the experience and ensure maximum retention. One such technique, studied broadly and also broadly applied in the process of teaching a new language, is called immediate confirmation. Basically, it means that in this case, when the teacher gives the students words and phrases to repeate, while correcting pronunciation errors, and then placing the students to again produce a corrected response, he is using the technique of immediate confirmation; a series of stimuli (in this case the words and the corrections) that produce an effect on the student. And by doing this repetitively, it ensures retention and memorization by simple repetition, and through correctio: Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching: Historical and Interdisciplinary by H.H Stern, and colleagues.