Could you share me your best practices/experiences for teaching learning articles?
Hello Krishna Prasad Parajuli,
Notably, the choice and the use of English articles can be regarded as the most frequent and confusing challenge facing ESL learners. The perfectly accurate use of English articles can prevent the prospective readers' misunderstanding of the message. As such, research on the correct ways of using articles in academic writing can be beneficial for to two main reasons. From a linguistic perspectivization, it can be interesting because students in ESL often come from different language backgrounds with or without a comparable system of article determiners, and this provides linguists with a useful ground for investigating L1/L2 transferability. From a pedagogical viewpoint, teachers, as you have rightly observed, should find effective ways of helping learners acquire target like accuracy in using English articles.
To teach English articles, therefore, several steps should be taken.
1) expose learners to meaningful input with different uses of articles,
2) go over the input with students and then provide them with more examples,
3) Have them make their own examples,
4) Cut up a list of several words that either take “a” or “an” and mix them up. For young learners, you may use pictures instead of words. Then divide students into pairs and have them put the words in two piles. This step is pedagogically useful since the use of either realia or real life settings can create learner engagement and participation.
Best regards,
R. Biria.
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