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Teaching Writing English

Jesse Said:

Please suggest ways of teaching to write English compositions to higher secondary students?

We Answered:

One way to get many suggestions is to go to Collegeboard.com (AP Central) and look at AP English Language and Composition. The class is focused on the teaching of writing and many educators contribute to the AP Central web site. If you are a teacher, you can sign up (free) for an account that will give you access to all of the information.
If you wish to use a text not tied to English literature, The Brief Bedford Reader (Bedford St. Martins pub.) contains many prose, non-fiction essays as examples and good chapter discussions of 8-10 types of essays as well as student-written models. I've used this text in both high schools and English 1A (college). It's quite effective.
Finally, the Online Writing Lab at Purdue.edu has wonderful resources both in style and mechanics.

Rebecca Said:

I am going to start teaching English language, want to ensure the right method.?

We Answered:

First, I hope that he is going to be immersed in English completely for those 2 months. It is quite an undertaking to learn it in 2 months, but for customer service purposes I think that it can be done.

Start with greeting. Hello, how are you, good afternoon, etc.

Teach him pronouns, verbs and verb tenses. Start with present tense and get as much vocab as possible into him.

He needs to be hearing and practicing English constantly. Can he watch English TV? English radio? English newspapers and magazines? Are the English speakers that he can hang out with?

Because he needs to speak this it is important to speak with him. Do not give him worksheets and tedious repetitive work. Some worksheets are helpful for getting down some sentence structure and spelling, but speak with him as much as possible.

After he gets down the basics do pretend service calls with him. Make up scenarios that he may face and then teach him how to deal with them. He can even make a workbook/reference book so that he can look things up if he needs to when he is placed in the position.

I teach Spanish and French and do not find most sites to be that helpful. If you are going to try to use websites then choose a topic that the is having a hard time with and search for extra help in that area only.

Good luck!

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