Saturday, February 2, 2013
week 4 and coming
Well dear blog this week has been very workable and engaging. First I always thought that my weakest point as a english teacher is the writing part because sometimes when you use aural or spoken language even when you are leading the communication you also can use body language and eventually a higher percent of the people will follow you. However, when writing comes, all people don`t pay too much attention to grammar which is the WAY on which we MUST use the language correctly and stiick with this issue is the fact all people that use language as as second one tend to use grammar their grammar structures instead fo english ones and as an example in spanish whenever the sentence was first is the noun and then the adjective but in english the order is all the way down. So as you can see for me isn`t a easy task to deal with. But according to the reading articles there is more than one option to overcome writing and also there are many things or situations which we may consider solutions to face this issue. thanks for all and see you next week.
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Hi Ricardo,
ReplyDeleteI think that grammar plays an important role in the process of language learning as well as it is essential for both the teachers and learners as it helps assess their level of language mastery.
However, I think that some of teachers lay too much emphasis on it and the mistake we often make is that we teach it in an isolated way. That is when we sometimes choose a grammar point at random and build a lesson around it, but I think it is always a good idea to move from a corpus and build a grammar lesson on a point taken from that corpus.
Catch you.
Hi Ricardo: Indeed you are correct, that in writing it is just you and the written words. There is no visual context and no compensation strategies. Your smile will not make people more sympathetic to wanting to try to understand you. It is a different ballgame, so to speak. -Robert
ReplyDeleteHi Ricardo!
ReplyDeleteYou are right and we must focus on writing skills for a better practive of the language, even though i don't agree with you on every gramatical choices in your post''stiick'' ''isn't a easy task'' etc...I'm sure that you could give a post without those errors with more attention.