robp
15 years ago
I have two foreign born students whose English needs to improve. Vocabulary good; sentence structure crap. Any ideas, anyone?
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Eingang says
15 years ago
dunno, but someone has someone similar for T320 and was looking for advice.
Eingang was
15 years ago
dubious that the current level was sufficient for third-year course. TMA was very interesting.
teromakotero
15 years ago
I think learning complete phrases is one of the best ways to learn foreign languages. I learned Spanish that way. :-)
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Eingang says
15 years ago
you can't really put an assignment together with a collection of phrases though.
teromakotero
15 years ago
Eingang that's true. But with phrases you learn grammar and vocabulary in right context, and have complete phrases to use in practice.
methel says
15 years ago
tell me about it....I have some too, it's mostly about style, they communicate well generally
Eingang says
15 years ago
the one I saw was well beyond style problems. The "essay" was an expanded outline of a stream of consciousness.
Eingang says
15 years ago
coherency was very much lacking.
Eingang says
15 years ago
the person marking it estimated it would get 5-10% for content.
Eingang says
15 years ago
but this doesn't help robp much.
Eingang says
15 years ago
I suggested the student might not be prepared for a level-3 university course. T175 a good idea along with some of the toolkits.
robp
15 years ago
I think teromakotero's idea of complete phrases might work for these two. They can both express themselves lucidly, I think. Some parts
robp
15 years ago
of their assignments are fine, and they set up their arguments and assemble their evidence OK. It's just that with both of them, sometimes
robp
15 years ago
a sentence starts off wrong, or takes a wrong turn, and they completely lose the grammar. So thanks teromakotero - nice idea
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