English for Everyday Living: Course for Second Language Learners-Beginner to IntermediateEnglish for Everyday Living: Course for Second Language Learners-Beginner to Intermediate
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English for Everyday Living: Course for Second Language Learners-Beginner to Intermediate
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Blaise's avatar
Everyday situations give language practice a clear purpose. A useful progression would be to model a short conversation, let learners replay it with a transcript, then try the same situation with one detail changed. How have you handled the step from recognising phrases to using them independently?
Ayesha's avatar
It's really great to hear from you Blaise, I have tried strategies with second language learners with reading short passages, identifying main ideas, constructing sentences, and paragraphs depending on their ability using differentiation. My learners were adults, and it was face...
Blaise's avatar
Thanks for explaining, Ayesha. Building from short passages into sentences and paragraphs gives learners a clear progression, and adapting the practice to their ability makes sense. Please feel free to share the course link here.
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