[etni] Re: Book Reports
- From: Bari Nirenberg <bnirenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: sherry.kisos@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 19:19:14 +0300
What could be a better use of class time than having students actually
writing English? The book report (or book task, as I never have my students
do a traditional book report) is supposed to be a learning experience, not
just a way to get a grade. I don't see any point at all to having students
write at home when they can get so much outside help, whether from the
Internet, private teachers or other students. I want my students to learn
how to write and the only way they can do that is by writing. Since I want
to be sure that they are the ones writing their own work, I only do book
tasks, compositions and other writing assignments in class.
Bari
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 16:51, Sherry Kisos <sherry.kisos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would like to reply to Avi regarding book reports.
> I know that a person is to supposed to give another person the benefit of
> the doubt, but, in this case, I would tend to think that the weaker
> students
> had a lot of outside help.
> I don't know if doing the book report in class is a good suggestion,
> because
> that might take up valuable class time. It might be possible to give them
> the general idea of how to do it in class and the students fill in the rest
> at home.
>
> In my very brief experience, I have discovered that many of the students to
> not have good vocabulary skills nor do they know how to write even a simple
> sentence. Much less, speak English...
>
> Very discouraging...
>
> Sherry Kisos
>
>
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