The lesson entitled How to Teach Conditionals to ESL Students was made to help you over the following topics: The conditional in the English language Overview of the four types of conditional sentences A focus on meaning through guided discovery ...
Learners responded to questions using single words or phrases, complete sentences, silence, or chorus answers. Teachers reacted to learners’ responses by offering verbal praise, instructing the class to clap, affirming and repeating learners’ responses, and asking follow-up questions. The study ...
@Andrea: Of course, you can't teach those kids grammar, but if your goal is to teach them to produce sentences, such as "There is a boy in the garden" or "There are six apples in the basket" the best way is to demonstrate the facts and ask questions requiring such answers. For e...
After the two students finished the task corporately, Ms L explained the differences between “date” and “conference” semantically, and then asked students to use the word “date” to make sentences. Ms H succeeded in her fourth teacher–student interaction. On the contrary, when Ms L ...
Providing students with a set of information to be studied. They then have to listen to or read the main passage and decide whether or not the same points are mentioned. Bottom-up processing Bottom-up activities are concerned with things such as individual words, phrases, and sentences. These...
Vocabulary is strictly limited to the subject matter of the units, but pronunciation is practiced rigorously as students listen to native speakers and repeat sentences and words. Though ALM produces good results for some students, it has fallen out of fashion in the ESL classroom. It is used ...
Later, but still during the very early years, in what is called the telegraphic stage, children produce longer sentences composed primarily of content words. By about age three, children can comprehend an incredible quantity of linguistic behavior; their speech capacity expands tremendously as they ...
Both the sentences showdifferent purposes as they give different meanings. It may be misinterpreted. From above mentioned examples, I cansay that the ESL students must acquire even the subtle knowledge of grammar. In order to convey the right meaningthe student must know the difference between ...
Prior-knowledge scaffolding– considering what students already know and then presenting new information in a way that connects to this prior knowledge. Example sheltered instruction activities 1. Words within context If your students are at a level where they can read and understand full sentences,...
1- Hot-seat: A lifetime favorite for most language teachers, this game has long been the cornerstone of most ESL classroom speaking activities and games. It is quite easy to play yet it gets a lot of language out of students if well thought out. How to Play 2 - What's this? : ...