Teachers love it when students make mistakes. It demonstrates that the student is trying and learning. A student who never makes a mistake when studying a foreign language is learning nothing.
Yosuke and Yuki often make mistakes, meaning they are developing and moving out of their comfort zones.
Miki, for the most part, refuses to speak altogether, so she doesn't make mistakes. But she did make some progress yesterday. We were working on a dialogue in her English textbook. After each dialogue, there are two questions for the student to answer. These are usually simple yes or no questions. For example, a line of the dialogue might be:
Sarah: "The movie was good."
Question 1: Was the movie good?
When I asked Miki one of the questions yesterday, finally, for the first time, she got that look that indicated she was actually thinking about it. And then she attempted the answer sincerely without being asked more than once. Her answer had a mistake in it, but I was very pleased that she showed some effort.
I consider this Miki's first sign of progress, and I hope she continues to make mistakes.
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