Junior High School Grammar
As a student, I feel "I am...", "It is...", "You are..." and the auxiliary verb:can are easy for me. I learn them as a chunk.And I feel the declension is difficult because these constructions are different between Japanese and English.
Japanese Wa tashi + (ga, no, wo or ni)
English I =Watashi-ga, my=Watashi-no, me=Watashi-wo(ni)
Next, I feel the objective case of the relative pronoun and the participle are difficult, too. I mix the past participle with the passive voice.
As a teacher, Practically, I think the third person, the passive voice, the present perfect, the sentence pattern, the participle, the gerund, and the tag question are difficult to teach. We don't have any ideas like the third parson in Japanese. And It is difficult to rewrite SVC and SVOO.
Teaching these grammartical elements comprehensible is very difficult. I can teach "Do you...?" or "I want to...." etc. as a foemula chunk, so they look easy at first sight but they are not necessarily easy. I think so.
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posted by riverdance @ 8:12 PM
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Your reflection made me notice what I didn't notice. I think so too!! The third parson is difficult. Because, if the nominative was only "he","she", we will be able to understand. But if the nominative was "many people" and especially "furniture" etc, many students will be confused the third person. And Japanese junior high school didn't very teach about sentence patterns, so I don't know whether it is important.
Thank you your comment, peanuts. I think if students cannot understand changing of the verb or any basic rules, there is no effect. Even if I teach English comprehensible and wonderfully.l
I found new idea on your reflection. I think it is useful to teach "I am..." or "I want to..." as a chunk, but I don't know whether it is useful for junior high school student or not. I want to think about it in future.
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