When taking into account Folse's suggestions on teaching ELL's article
usage, I do believe, as well as Folse, that knowing the background of
your ELL's primary language plays a huge role. Some languages fail to
use articles or may call them a different name. This part is very
important because your student may get confused easily because it's
either something he/she never heard before, or it's something they
already know, but it's something different in their primary language.
I
would also suggest a copious amount of practice of article usage. This
website provides the rules of article usage along with other links to
help with extra practice. This is actually the site I personally refer
to when I'm stuck on anything while writing a formal paper. The site is
titled "Owl: Purdue Online Writing Lab"
and was created by English Majors attending Purdue University. With
that being said, you can trust it's credibility because the site
wouldn't be able to get publish if it wasn't serious with well educated
lessons. The site also offers many other grammar and general writing
tips and it's the key to success; Whether you're writing a term paper or
learning English for the firs time.
For practicing verb tenses, I searched the web and found a game that I actually played three times myself. It's called Speed Word.
In the game, you are given ten words, and you have ten seconds to spell
out the past tense of the word (1 word every 10 seconds). I chose this
site because not only is it educational, but it's fun. How long will
your ELL be able to read and study rules and guidelines without any fun
or practice? This site scream fun and learning soon as you click the
link. Not only is it fun and a great learning experienced, it's designed
with English learners in mind. The words start of really simple and
become harder as you progress. Your score is based on how fast you were
and the accuracy of the word, not spelling. In order to spell out the
word, you have to click on the letters at the bottom of the screen. Say
your word was "buy" and you were going to spell "brought," the game
wouldn't allow to type the "r" because of course, the correct answer is
"bought." In other words, the only way you can get an answer wrong is if
you run out of time.
With this list of sites, I'm sure teaching and learning verb tenses will be no problem:
1. The first link is a video guide for those younger visual learners
2. The second link is the game I mentioned above for fun and practice
3. The last link is the Purdue Online Writing Lab that consists of both rules and practice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxuYOR4MWGI
http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past1-sw.html
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/601/01/
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