The Mistake Buster Technique

The Journal of English Language Teaching

Topic: Using The Mistake Buster Technique in Teaching Grammar to Junior high school students

Writer: Gemala Imelda HanifaEnglish Department, Faculty of Language and art

State University of Padang, IndonesiaPublished on 2013

The Mistake Buster Technique

• Students’ active participant in evaluating their own grammatical errors that are available made or prepared by the teacher.

Steps of The Mistake Buster Technique

1. Choosing a mistake category

• Focus on the lesson being taught

2. Preparing the Mistake

• The teacher provides some grammatical mistakes to be found and corrected by the students.

Teaching procedure

• Pre-teaching

- Greet the students

- Tell the purpose and basic competencies

- Ask about some point of grammatical form

- Show the text with grammatical form

- Explain the form and use

- Give example

• Whilst Teaching

- Exploration

- Elaboration

- Confirmation

• Post – Teaching

. The teacher gives feedback toward the process and learning achievement.

The Advantages of Using mistake buster technique

• Students feel excited.

• Give the sense of accomplishment to the students.

• Teacher can check students’ comprehension and understanding of the lesson.

• Students feel comfortable and fun.

Sample Activity

• Step.1 Warm up

• Step.2 (Short sentences and long

sentences can be used)

• Step.3 (A narrative can be used)

• Step.4 Wrap up

Conclusion and Suggestion

• A technique student’s active participant in evaluating their own grammatical error that are available made or prepared by the teacher.

Conclusion and Suggestion

• Two stages should be done by the teacher

1. In preparation stage

2. In main activity

Some considerations

• Choose the mistake category

• Divide students into some group work

• Consider the different level of the students

• Praise the students for their effort

• Give feedback or more explanations

Thank you

1. Mrs. Nuansamron Kjosmoen No. 15

2. Mrs. Prakasani Butkhot No. 22