August 10th, 2009
ESL Lesson Plan: Reading
This one has to be the easiest lessons to plan for – along with listening. Reading, listening, speaking and writing fall in the category of Skills Lessons. Often, you will find students, especially adult learners, insist on learning skills rather than formal grammar. Of course, skills are the most important part of any language because they allow one to communicate with others. But ESL learners often do not realize that grammar and vocabulary (which are language items) are as intrinsic to learning a new language as the skills.
A Japanese ESL student who masters the American accent but forms her sentences using the Japanese form of S-O-V sentences (instead of the English S-V-O) is going to comprehensible, but only slightly. You get my point 
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