You may have lots of people around you who correct you, or you may not get corrected very often. Either way, you may be able to improve on welcoming correction. The goal in welcoming correction is not simply to get a lot of it, but rather, to get helpful correction. The most helpful correction allows you, as the learner, the opportunity to observe your errors.
Below is a list of some activities that encourage this sort of correction:
1. Make a recording of yourself telling a story, listen to it with a native speaker and have him/her make corrections. Record those corrections.
2. Read aloud to a native speaker and have him/her correct your pronunciation mistakes.
3. Have a native speaker ask you questions, record your answers and the corrections from the native speaker.
4. Listen to these correction recordings in order to observe the differences between your speaking and the native speaking.
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