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by Rajib Saha

Feb 4, 2017 English Language Teaching (ELT) 4107 Views

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Teaching grammar is an imperative element of school education. Without proper grammar, written or spoken words usually lose their exact meaning and much of their value as well. It is a significant part of language to get right for which, teachers take special care on imparting the real importance of it to their students. However, the task becomes much tough to teach in an ESL setting.

One common way is to focus on the different forms and rules and helping students to learn the subject with help of rote memorization. But, for ESL teachers, the process is different as because the target audience treats English as their second language.

Going Out of One's Comfort Zone

For teaching a topic, one needs to understand the very same. Teachers must know about different parts of sentences, rules and tenses including basics of the subject as well. The process of just running into the classroom and going through a series of answers and exercises is not the ideal way. Mostly, ESL students do not learn English in the same way by which native English speakers learn. So, the ideal job is to help them understand their mistakes, difference between spoken and written grammar and the perfect usage of specific grammar forms.

Learn to Offer Overt Grammar Instruction

Clear instructions help students to learn the language efficiently, however, incorporating more number of communicative activities into the lesson plan will make students get the right grip on the subject. This is so because, mostly people learn from observation, learning and practice. One can break the entire session into manageable sections including; introducing the lesson, showing the way of using it in contextual situations, play interesting games by putting into practical usage.

Never Bore the Students

The subject includes a series of forms and rules; however, there are ways of making the class enjoyable. The primal goal is to allow students to understand the subject and use it for communicative purposes. The teacher can start a game by asking few questions from textbooks or from earlier oral practice sections. While playing the game she can either further introduce several examples relevant to the subject or ask students to come up with own examples.

Facilitate learning is the pivotal thing to do for an ESL teacher. So, providing students with various interesting learning exercises is the ideal task. However, since rules and forms related to grammar are quite tedious, therefore engaging them into the session will help students to learn and instill the lesson properly.

 

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Rajib Saha is an eminent writer who is keen in writing articles and blogs on ESL teaching. He suggests aspirants finding jobs for foreigners in China to consider ESL jobs for building a prosperous career.

 

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