tailieunhanh - The grammar book teacher course part 70

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 70', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 24 Coordinating Conjunction 483 Conclusion Conjunction presumably exists to help speakers and writers avoid repetition of identical constituents and to avoid ambiguity. We have seen that this can be done by adding coordinating conjunctions and through the use of ellipsis and pro-forms. Correlative conjunctions can serve this same purpose while emphasizing the coordination of grammatically similar constituents. One of the fascinating aspects of conjunctions is the chameleonlike way in which they may behave as simple logical operators at one extreme and as discourse markers at the other. While the study of discourse markers does not play a large role in tliis book teachers should be aware that many of the uses of conjunctions particularly conversational ones fall into this linguistic type. For ESL EFL teachers much having to do with conjunctions is fairly unproblematical for students. Nevertheless the processes of coordination will have to be taught so that ESL EFL students can learn to produce acceptable conjoined structures. Teaching Suggestions 1. Form. A focus on coordination in English is a good context in which to deal with grammatical parallelism that is the coordinating of sequences of NP-NP-NP VP-VP-VP and so on while avoiding the coordination of unlike elements. Lack of parallelism is often seen as a problem in native student writing as well but with a difference ESL EFL students often have difficulty internalizing and automatizing differences among word forms such as important importance or real really reality they also may have difficulties in recognizing larger phrasal units. Engaging students in coordination work is an excellent way to practice these forms even at advanced class levels. Students can be presented with sentences from a text like the following or shown samples of their own or other students work they can be asked to determine whether the sentences are properly formed and to fix those that are not Weather is the effect of four .