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How it worksMistakes

Your mistakes are your best lesson plan

Langrit keeps every slip you make, groups them by type and brings them back until they are fixed.

When you get something wrong in practice or writing, it is saved with the correct version. The Mistakes page shows which patterns come back most, and one tap starts a short drill on them.

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Your sentence

Morgen naar mijn werk.

Word order: verb second

5 slips this week

Practise

Tap the underlined words to see the fix.

How to use it well

  1. Look once a week

    See which pattern comes back most often.

  2. Drill the top pattern

    A short drill on one pattern does more than reading about all of them.

  3. Watch it shrink

    The count drops as you stop making that mistake.

Why it works

Feedback on errors works

A review of studies on corrective feedback found it helps learners improve, and the effect lasts beyond the lesson.

Source:Li, 2010, Language Learning

A wrong guess can help you learn

When people try to answer, get it wrong and then see the right answer, they often remember it better than people who were shown the answer straight away.

Source:Kornell, Hays & Bjork, 2009

The research behind it

Peer-reviewed studies this tool is built on. Tap a title to read the paper.

  1. Review of many studiesLi, 2010
    The effectiveness of corrective feedback in SLA: A meta-analysis

    Language Learning

    What they did
    Combined 33 studies in which language learners received corrections on their errors.
    What they found
    Corrections helped learners improve, and the effect was still there on later tests.
    Read the paper doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00561.x
  2. Review of many studiesLyster & Saito, 2010
    Oral feedback in classroom SLA: A meta-analysis

    Studies in Second Language Acquisition

    What they did
    Combined classroom studies of spoken corrective feedback.
    What they found
    Feedback helped learners use the target forms more accurately, and the gains lasted.
    Read the paper doi.org/10.1017/S0272263109990520
  3. ExperimentKornell, Hays & Bjork, 2009
    Unsuccessful retrieval attempts enhance subsequent learning

    Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

    What they did
    People either guessed an answer first (often wrongly) and then saw it, or saw the answer straight away.
    What they found
    Trying first and getting it wrong, followed by the right answer, led to better memory than only reading the answer.
    Read the paper doi.org/10.1037/a0015729

The mistake most people make

Avoiding hard sentences to make fewer mistakes

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