Giovannangelo: Blog Post # 6
For this week’s blog post, I explored teaching resources for teaching Grammar to L2 learners. I teach grammar regularly to my academic English students, but I never thought about how I would adapt that instruction for English language learners. I explored Fluent U’s resources for teaching Grammar to ESL students and found it to contain lots of great ideas and resources that I wouldn’t have previously thought to explore. The article first starts out with explaining how we can make our grammar lessons more meaningful for our ELL students. They recommend three basic principles. As someone who teaches grammar on a daily basis, I agree that these three principles are important when teaching grammar to all students; however, when teaching to ELL students, the skills can be that much more overwhelming and confusing, therefore, we need to make sure we are getting creative. 1. Contextualize: as teachers, we need to make sure that we are not ...