Research Paper: ‘Incorporating Collocation Teaching in a Reading-Writing Program’ by Yang Ying & Jiang Jingyi

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‘Teaching Noun to ESL Learners by Task Based Teaching’ by Dr. Krati Sharma

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 27 | November 10, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]


This article is submitted by Dr. Krati Sharma, JECRC UDML College of Engg. & Technology, Jaipur (Rajasthan). 

Introduction

Teaching English to ESL learner is always a challenge. Teaching a grammar item needs much learning, training, understanding and above all an innovative pedagogy. In the present paper an attempt has been made to teach Noun (naming words) to ESL learners with the pedagogy of task based teaching. For non-native English speakers understanding   of this item is very important and crucial as it comes first in the ladder of parts of speech.   The emphasis here is to make learners usage centric. The problem is they would know the usage and discourse of this grammar item. The pedagogy of teaching is divided into stages. Each stage has a correlation with the other stage. In the final stage the learner will not only identity the noun but it become a part of its lexical discourse.

Keywords:  ESL Learners, Task based teaching, Label, Discourse

Teaching is an implicit exercise. In the present paper discusses a teaching pedagogy of Noun. Noun is a grammar item. It is one of the basic that has been assumed by the facilitator that ESL learner should be friendly with.

The pedagogy has been divided into stages.

The first stage is to introduce that to the item Noun Facilitator discusses the term Noun that is a naming word or it is name of a person place or a thing. Its example is

  1. I am Mohan
  2. I live in Jaipur
  3. I am working on my project.

Here the underline words are Noun. Some other example can be given beside this. (more…)

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