Dr. Rod Ellis: TESOL Written Corrective Feedback - matbury.com Professor Rod Ellis, gave a presentation which is available on YouTube.com. In it, he focuses on written corrective feedback. I’ve written a basic summary below. Get a drink, a snack, your notebook, make yourself comfortable and enjoy an allusive, informative explanation of the current state of affairs regarding written corrective feedback; the types and strategies, what we know, what we don’t know and what we should do. Running time: 1:09:08 Why do we give written corrective feedback? To enable learners to revise their own writing, i.e. produce a better second draftTo assist learner to acquire correct English A Typology of corrective feedback types Strategies for providing corrective feedbackHow learners respond to the feedback Written corrective feedback strategies 1. Advantage – Provides learners with explicit guidance about how to correct their errors. * The effect of focused written corrective feedback and language aptitude on ESL learners. 2. Advantages Disadvantages 4. 1. 2. 5. 6.
The generation gap by Colin McIntosh It’s a feature of younger generations through the centuries that they feel the need to give themselves an identity through their ideas, their fashion, their politics, and their language. Leaving aside their language for another post, let’s look at the labels they’ve given themselves, that they’ve given others, and that others have given them, many of which are new additions to the Cambridge English Dictionary. The Beat Generation, born in the US in the 30s, were probably the trailblazers. The boomers, or baby-boomers, born in the baby boom after the Second World War, were the ones who, in Harold MacMillan’s famous phrase “never had it so good”, and they’re still thought of in this way by succeeding generations who had it worse. Generation X, the group of people who were born in the 1960s and 1970s, were often portrayed as having no clear direction to their lives. Like this: Like Loading...
Grammar Help Punctuation Marks period || comma || question mark || exclamation mark || colon || semicolon || hyphen || dash parentheses || brackets || ellipsis || apostrophe || quotation marks || slash The Guide to Grammar and Writing is sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c-3 organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum innovation. I If you feel we have provided something of value and wish to show your appreciation, you can assist the College and its students with a tax-deductible contribution. For more about giving to Capital, write to CCC Foundation, 950 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103. Phone (860) 906-5102 or email: jmcnamara@ccc.commnet.edu.
Some Important Rules for Writing Formal Essays 日本語表示(Japanese) 英語表示(English) This section contains: 1) A list of important style rules. 2) Exercises 1 / Exercises 2 1) Do NOT plagiarize. It is very important to write while using your own words. Plagiary is defined as copying another person's vocabulary expressions, or using another person's ideas without giving that other person credit. If you like another person's vocabulary expression (even two words together), then put quotation marks around the expression and cite the source. A writer must cite research sources for everything that is not "common knowledge." In summary, if you want to use another person's "unique phrase" or ideas, you must give that other person credit. 2) Always have a friend check your paper before giving it to the teacher. 3) Always put a space between lines so the teacher or a friend can make corrections. 4) Avoid personal "I", "you", and "we", except for the thesis statement. 5) Avoid asking questions. 6) Do NOT use contractions "it'll", "he's", "they've" etc.
Writing task two Task description You will be given a discussion topic. Your task is to write a 250 word essay on that topic. You should spend around 40 minutes on the task. What is being tested is your ability to: Present a point of view with convincing evidence Challenge an alternate point of view Focus on the topic and avoid irrelevancies Communicate in a style that is easy to follow and cohesive Use English accurately and appropriately Sample task You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Your task Complete the task 2 exercise above. Sample answer It has been around forty years since television was first introduced into Australian households and people today still have mixed views on whether it has a positive or a negative influence on the society. “The essay has a clear introduction which poses the problem. Strategies for improving your IELTS score The style of essay required for Task 2 of the IELTS writing test is standard to academic courses. Connecting sentences A. B.
relative clauses 1. The relative pronouns: The relative pronouns are: We use who and whom for people, and which for things. We use relative pronouns to introduce relative clauses, which tell us more about people and things. 2. We use relative clauses to postmodify a noun - to make clear which person or thing we are talking about. as subject (see Clauses Sentences and Phrases) Isn’t that the woman who lives across the road from you? WARNING: The relative pronoun is the subject of the clause. *The woman who [she] lives across the road… *The tiger which [it] killed its keeper … as object of a clause (see Clauses, Sentences and Phrases) Have you seen those people who we met on holiday? - Sometimes we use whom instead of who when the relative pronoun is the object: Have you seen those people whom we met on holiday? - When the relative pronoun is object of its clause we sometimes leave it out: Have you seen those people we met on holiday? WARNING: The relative pronoun is the object of the clause. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Paragraph Structure and Format, 10 min. 10 Common Challenges Spanish Speakers Have When Learning English While English is – supposedly – an easy language to learn (maybe), every native speaker of another language has his or her issues. Today we’re looking at the common mistakes that native Spanish speakers make when trying to learn English. English learners, take a look – you might discover a mistake you didn’t even know you were making. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing Summary: This handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This handout compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills. Contributors:Dana Lynn Driscoll, Allen BrizeeLast Edited: 2013-02-15 09:44:45 What are the differences among quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing? These three ways of incorporating other writers' work into your own writing differ according to the closeness of your writing to the source writing. Quotations must be identical to the original, using a narrow segment of the source. Paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, including only the main point(s). Why use quotations, paraphrases, and summaries? Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries serve many purposes.
English Punctuation - Learn English Free English Punctuation If you think punctuation doesn't matter, think again:- When you are speaking you use inflection, tone, nuance, pauses and word stress to communicate meaning. When you are writing you replace all this with punctuation. Using a full stop at the right time, can save a lot of embarassment:- Lynne Truss made a fortune out of pointing out that punctuation does indeed matter. The title, Eats shoots and leaves, comes from a joke about pandas:- A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down and orders a sandwich. Of course the entry would have been less deadly for the waiter if it had read - Panda: A bear, in the Uridae family, of Asian origin, characterised by distinct black and white colouring. There's another common joke:- An English professor wrote the words, “Woman without her man is nothing,” on the blackboard and directed his students to punctuate it correctly.The men wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”The women wrote: “Woman: Without her, man is nothing.”
British Council | Relative clauses - non-defining relative clauses Relative clauses - non-defining relative clauses Relative clauses add extra information to a sentence by defining a noun. They are usually divided into two types – defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses. Non-defining relative clauses Look at this sentence. My grandfather, who is 87, goes swimming every day. ‘who is 87’ is a non-defining relative clause. Look at some more examples. The film, which stars Tom Carter, is released on Friday. Non-defining relative clauses add extra information to sentences. Defining or non-defining? Remember that defining relative clauses are used to add important information. I’m going to wear the skirt that I bought in London. Non-defining relative clauses can use most relative pronouns (which, whose etc,) but they CAN’T use ‘that’ and the relative pronoun can never be omitted. The film, that stars Tom Carter, is released on Friday. Non-defining relative clauses are more often used in written English than in spoken English.
Five Paragraph Essay Rap!, 1 min., silly 40 Useful Words and Phrases for Top-Notch Essays 17.7KGoogle +202 1702 2322 25 August, 2014 The secret to a successful essay doesn’t just lie in the clever things you talk about and the way you structure your points. To be truly brilliant, an essay needs to utilise the right language. General explaining Let’s start by looking at language for general explanations of complex points. 1. Usage: “In order to” can be used to introduce an explanation for the purpose of an argument. Example: “In order to understand X, we need first to understand Y.” 2. Usage: Use “in other words” when you want to express something in a different way (more simply), to make it easier to understand, or to emphasise or expand on a point. Example: “Frogs are amphibians. 3. Usage: This phrase is another way of saying “in other words”, and can be used in particularly complex points, when you feel that an alternative way of wording a problem may help the reader achieve a better understanding of its significance. Example: “Plants rely on photosynthesis. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.