**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** Content-type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-465D24A9; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT At 21:24 30/11/03 +0200, Ask Etni wrote: >of them, unattainable) levels, why not let them choose a book which they >want to read and which has been written at a level that they feel >comfortable with? What we may lose in vocabulary acquisition, we will gain >in vocabulary reinforcement?and, more importantly, we might even manage to >reduce student frustration. > >Andrew Wilson > Please contribute more and stop lurking. You brought up some excellent points. We're teaching a generation that rarely reads books in the native tongue, so we have to make the book reports less like punishment, or we're defeating their real purpose, which is to encourage reading English. Or are we only teaching for a good grade? Batya ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####