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 #16 (permalink) Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:11 am Correct usage of MIGHT. |
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This is the difference Molly between teaching English to an English speaker and teaching English to a non English speaker !!!!
There is a wide difference in opinion in how ESL should be taught, but I have found in over 35 years, that for ESL the best way is to teach them how to communicate effectively using all the tricks in the book to ease understanding and put them on a path to further progress.
After all, unless they want English perfection and can fully understand the language being used to teach the language they wish to learn, the effectiveness of going into every grammatical nitty gritty is basically useless!! Shoot me for it, but it is true. My explanation cannot be said by anyone to be oversimplified or incorrect for use by an ESL speaker.
Additionally, one must also appreciate that the ESL speaker, unlike a native English speaker, is not obliged to learn English, this means that any initial motivation can be quickly lost, due to those fully encompassing explanations out of the native English classroom. A balance must be achieved between what you want to teach them and what they need to know. Naturally we must also appreciate for what purpose they wish to learn the language, also a very important factor.
Only my opinion. Others will think differently, but I don't intend to go to war with anyone. Everyone has the right to their own opinions.
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| #17 (permalink) Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:23 am Correct usage of MIGHT. |
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| There is a wide difference in opinion in how ESL should be taught, but I have found in over 35 years, that for ESL the best way is to teach them how to communicate effectively using all the tricks in the book to ease understanding and put them on a path to further progress. |
That's all fine, but even a 35-year-man can learn more about teaching and learning, can't he? To me, and quite a few others -teachers and students alike - the idea of proximal versus remote forms is simple and effective and, more importantly, systematic. That way, that idea, allowed me to understand the use of modals and other verbs. Before all that, there had been many "explanations", by many teachers who thought they were simplyfying things. Thing is, those teachers loved what they saw as simplyfying usage - mainly because it normally made the job easier at that moment - but the same teachers didn't want to know about possible consequences of their attempts to simplify.
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| The story is never black and white! |
This comment seems pretty monochrome. :wink:
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| This is the difference Molly between teaching English to an English speaker and teaching English to a non English speaker !!!! |
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| #18 (permalink) Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:27 am Correct usage of MIGHT. |
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| WOW MOLLY I love you .... You really think I look 35? (smile) |
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| #19 (permalink) Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:53 am Correct usage of MIGHT. |
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| WOW MOLLY I love you .... You really think I look 35? (smile) |
In the photo, you look around 35mm and blurry. :wink: |
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