Abstract:One important problem facing English teachers is that of students’ language mistakes. This paper based on analyses mainly distinction between errors and mistakes, different attitudes towards mistakes, the causes of making mistakes, when and how to correct the mistakes, the ways of correction include self-correction, peer correction and teacher correction. If English teachers may want to understand students’ learning through mistake analysis and the students can improve their English level, teachers should take some measures to help the students.  

Key words: English teaching; attitude for mistake; causes of mistake; methods of correction

中文摘要:学生犯的语言错误是英语老师必须面对的问题。本论文主要涉及到对错误的区分，对错误的不同看法，学生犯错误的原因，然而何时纠正错误及如何解决这些问题，其中纠错的方法包括自己纠错，同学纠错和老师纠错。为了老师能够快速成功的理解学生的学习情况，学生也能够提高英语水平，老师应该采取一定的措施来帮助学生。

关键词：英语教学；对错误的态度；错误的原因；纠错的方法