[etni] Fw: clarification

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Esther Revivo - estherrv@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: clarification

I wrote in a previous post:

I am adamantly against teaching grammar in any but the mother tongue.
> English grammar is diametrically opposed to that of our pupils' native
> tongues, (primarily Hebrew and Arabic, which my husband speaks fluently. )
> Thus, it is hard enough for pupils to grasp the intricacies of the grammar
> we teach without having the language barrier make understanding it even
> more difficult.


WHAT I MEANT WAS :
English Grammar indeed MUST be taught, but in my opinion SHOULD be taught in 
Hebrew or Arabic --- the pupils' mother tongue. For, English grammar is so 
different than Hebrew (and Arabic grammar, according to husband who studied 
classical Egyptian literary Arabic) that teaching grammatic rules in English 
rather than in their mother tongue will make it much harder for pupils to 
get a good grasp of the rules. (And let's face it, with so many rules 
differing from previous rules, it is no picnic to teach English grammar in 
ANY language :)

Outside of grammar... ONLY English should be used in class unless a pupil is 
totally baffled by your words (in English,) and attempts at saying the same 
thing in simple English yielded no results.

Shabbat Shalom-
Esther Revivo



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