My 2018 Teacher Inquiry on Motivating Reluctant Writers brings accelerated progress.
Saturday 27 October 2018
Amplify rather than simplify
If we are to get our English second language students to acquire good English, we need to amplify the language rather than simplify it.
Oral language is the key to this process where students are exposed to high quality texts and through a process of working with those in the form of close activities, picture -word matching, split sentences and matching activities as well as a host of other activities, they actually start owning the language. Repetition is the key, as a once off lesson will not achieve the desired outcome. Its rewarding to read students' efforts and you see that they have acquired new vocabulary as well as the ability to write high quality texts just because they have been exposed to it and repetition has made it possible for them to remember it.
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