Received: from web40906.mail.yahoo.com (web40906.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.203]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1Q1CvP01740 for <nifl-esl@nifl.gov>; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:12:57 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20030226011253.31379.qmail@web40906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [164.113.53.21] by web40906.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:12:53 PST Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:12:53 -0800 (PST) From: Robb Scott <jayhawk76@yahoo.com> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8640] Re: RE: War as a cross-cultural issue To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20030225154637.009eae70@mail.aracnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 1469 Lines: 45 Hear, hear. Amen to that. --- Sylvan Rainwater <sylvan@cccchs.org> wrote: > At 03:50 PM 02/24/2003 -0500, Susan Ryan wrote: > >Do we need to get so deep into subject matter to > teach the English > >language? My students are just struggling to put > the adjactive before the noun! > > Obviously, we don't *need* to get so deep into > subject matter. But > sometimes it's useful. When people get interested in > something that is > meaningful to them, they quit thinking so hard about > using the language and > just communicate. I teach computers 1 hour a week, > and even though it's all > in English, most of them get it, and enjoy it, and > forget that they are > also learning English in the process. > > If you can have a discussion of a topic that affects > everyone, and if war > isn't it right now, I don't know what is, then > sometimes that's fruitful to > meet more than one need, and sometimes more useful > than simply to practice > a particular grammar point. > > Sure, you need both content and grammar, and how to > balance them is part of > the art of teaching. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Sylvan Rainwater . Family Literacy Coordinator > Clackamas County Children's Commission / Head Start > Oregon City, OR USA . mailto:sylvan@cccchs.org > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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