3682. Have Your Students Ever Read a Book? I'm Not Kidding
We as teachers wish our students would learn a lot, who doesn’t wish so?
It seems sound and sensible they would gain reading comprehension. At least here in Spain quite some or many students have rather poor reading understanding at school and when they leave school.
And experts now state that some drawback for them is they may be so accustomed to screens. Even they may show some addiction to them. Well, it’s ok they use computers and tablets at school, yet it seems more important they’d use paper books and practice handwriting: sometimes you can encounter kids or teens or college students that have no dexterity at composing an essay, or understanding an article properly.
And that’s a big problem.
It is so necessary our students would dedicate a lot of their daily time to study their paper books and write essays. What can you do with a student who reaches college and cannot answer an exam with some appropriate response?
It is paramount our students sit to study their books, understand the unit, get the meaning, get the main ideas, and set them down on a sheet of paper. Let us practice all this in class, plus let us set daily homework: some reading and studying from their books, and write outlines or recaps or the kind.
And let us put our kids in contact with universal literature masterpieces. We’ll be doing them so good, believe me.
Currently I teach adults, English to adults. And something I implement is to set some homework, on a daily basis: to review today’s lesson plus such and such activities from their workbooks. As well I tell them that if they really, really wish to learn and acquire English, well, they should dedicate some time to English, also on a daily basis, so they can work on their textbooks on their own and by themselves. They may feel free to do so.
Lately I do it less, but as well if they read graded readers and books in the target language, they will learn a lot of grammar and lexis, and they’ll become more fluent at class discussions in English! The more they read and study, the more capable they’ll be to express themselves in class, where most of the discourse is in English. And they’re eager to participate in class. For that they need the language they can gain by reading and working on their own. They are great fellows. Have a nice day, fellow readers.
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