[etni] Fw: re: Encouraging students to converse in English

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Judy Freedman - judyfreedman@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Encouraging students to converse in English

Hi Hadas,
I don't know you or your situation but... I have been in Israel for 30 
years, my Hebrew is excellent, yet I still have an accent and do make 
mistakes. I ask my pupils, in Hebrew, why they don't laugh at me. They say 
that my mistakes don't matter, it's OK! (They are reassuring me!) So I 
bounce it back to them and tell them that speaking English with mistakes 
doesn't matter, just speak and no-one will laugh at you.
I try not to correct their oral mistakes, as long as they are willing to 
open their mouths, I am happy. I also sometimes get them just to repeat my 
sentences, I mean how wrong can you get? And then I say -LOOK you're talking 
English, you can do it!
Good luck
Judy


Hadas wrote:
>I am a private tutor to an eighth grader. His English is good and he knows
the grammar rules. His oral understanding is excellent as welll. However, he
refuses to speak in English, possibly due to shyness.
If you have any ideas as to how encourage students to converse in English
(preferably from experience), I would appreciate it if you could write me
about them.

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