Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h6KIfM707897; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:41:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:41:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <001301c34eef$2c7ac720$9404fea9@GatewayClient> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "pruett said" <said@ameritech.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9210] Re: writing in esl X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1022 Lines: 22 Dear Mona, What I see in that student's paragraph is a student who has learned English (perhaps rather well) but who has never learned to spell in English. I have a number of students in the same boat in my advanced level ESL continuing ed class. What I have started doing is giving them dictations, and my students love it because I also have some students who can write pretty well but who still have listening problems, and so a dictation serves them both. I make up the dictations from texts we have been studying and also from pronunciation exercises in their books. We also discuss spelling rules but just reading a list of rules really isn't all that helpful. We don't just do dictations, but my students are always happy when we do them. One of the interesting things to come out of this class is that many of my students who can't spell do seem to be able to read pretty well. I'd always believed the axiom that reading a lot would take care of spelling but maybe not. Terry Pruett-Said ESL teacher Michigan
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