[Bkn-english-646-fall-2009] Assignment 7-Yani

[yani29 at aol.com]

During my brief time as an ESL teacher I would also recommend reading. I gave a ten-ten-ten exercise: ten minutes reading, ten minutes writing and ten minutes speaking. I told them they could read anything for ten minutes everyday, it could be a newspaper, a website or perhaps a magazine.  This would introduce them to new vocabulary words and what sentences look like in English. Ten minutes of writing either in a journal,email or notebook would help them start learning to write in English. I agree with the importance of both reading and writing and how it all influences learning. Although beneficial for both ESL and native speakers, it takes on a different significance for the latter. Native speakers improve their syntax and sentence structure while ESL students are still learning  language and meaning. 

 My time is split between reading compassion and writing. Most of my students fall in the ESL category. In order for them to begin writing their papers they need to understand the readings. Anthony, is it not ok to do reading comprehension? I didn't know-thought they went hand in hand.

John-totally agree with the brillo pad. These students are taking anywhere from five to six classes (whatever happened to four?) and here I come along with a stack of review sheets telling the students "these are really good for you to take home and review\reference and u might also want to check out this book and that website..." poor students their eyes are a sneeze away from popping out of their heads and dangling across the table. They try.

 Chris- I know what you mean. This is dilemma I am constantly faced with. My students will begin to read out loud  and will go right pass their mistake. So I ask them if they saw or heard anything wrong. The crickets begin...the answer is not in their memory banks because they haven't learned it yet. How can we leave these students in learning distress? Sometimes rules have to broken or bent-just a little-it's for the greater good. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: anthony eid <anthonyeid1986 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:19:26 
To: John Casquarelli<jcas888 at yahoo.com>
Cc: <bkn-english-646-fall-2009 at lists-1.liu.edu>; Christopher Banks<auron130 at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [Bkn-english-646-fall-2009] Assignment 7

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