Our team has developed a grammar tool for domestic students here at the University of Waikato. We noticed a trend of students approaching us to explain that their teachers were telling them to correct their grammar but that they didn't know what grammar they needed to correct. As a response to this we've developed a tool that targets the grammar errors that are typical of native speakers of English. (Our strategies for helping non-native speakers is different... that's for another blog).
We're interested in constructive feedback about the content and the formative quizzes in the tool. What do you think should be there that isn't there? What do you think about the items in the quizzes?
Student Learning grammar
I'd also enjoy discussing how you encourage grammatical accuracy and independence for NESB learners as well; strategies that avoid "correcting it for them". In our context we frequently must insist to our learners that "we do not provide a proof-reading service". Our 'goal oriented' learners especially are frustrated by this, but so are our process learners; they're so tired, and their language difficulties add so much to their learning burden.
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
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