HOW WE CAN HELP STUDENTS TO UNDERSTAND

MEANING?

Complete Beginners

• This is the easiest level at which to explain meaning.

• Some of the ways of helping students to understand the meaning are:

PicturesObjectsDrawings GesturesExpression

“It is a pencil”

What is it?

Elememtary

Invitations

• Showing the students a picture

• The use of questions often called check questions

Lower Intermediate

Comparatives

Teacher can start by asking the question What do you prefer?

Explain the meaning of individual adjectives

How can we help students to understand language form

As well as hearing/seeing language

How it is constructed?

Sounds

Comprehend Syllables

Words

Phrases

SOUNDS: Pen /p/ /e/ /n/Ruler /r/ /u/ /l/ /e/ /r/SYLLABLES: Table the syllable “ta” is stressedPaper the syllable “pa” is stressedIntonation in questions: What is it?On “is” the voice fall dramaticallyOn “it” the voice rising slightlyWORDS: Synonymsprotection – offer/provide/give protection against /

from/for

PRHASES: It is a pen

Invitations: Would you like to + verb phrase

Answer: That would be + adjective

Why do students make mistakes?

False friends

Interference

The effect can be on any aspect of language:

GrammarVocabularyAccentSpelling and so on.

Other mistakes:

She cook seafood. He write a letter.It sleep only in the mornings.

HOW SHOULD TEACHERS CORRECT STUDENTS?

CORRECTIONS HELPS TO:

• - CLARIFY• -UNDERSTANDING

TEACHERS

• PROVIDE THE PRECISELY INFORMATION

• HOW TO CORECT THE PEOPLE MISTAKE ?

• MERY: TRAINS ARE SEFER PLANES

• TEACHER: SAFER PLANES ?• MERY: OH……. TRAINS ARE SAFER

THAN PLANES.