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Using Flashcards for English Second Language Creative Writing in Grade 1

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Mathura, Shivona; Zulu, Free-Queen B. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2021

Background: English Second Language (ESL) learners have difficulty constructing sentences due to internalising information in their home language and thereafter translating it into English. Learners who have difficulty speaking English generally encounter problems writing it, which hampers their creative writing ability. Objectives: The purpose of…

Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning

Teaching Writing: Syntax and Grammar in the First Year of School.

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Campbell, Rod – Learning and Instruction, 1993

Analysis of a writing lesson delivered to 22 children in their first year of school shows that instruction in grammar occurs without the use of a metalanguage for the concepts under instruction. Teacher control of knowledge through contingent question and answer is analyzed. (SLD)

Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grammar

A Look at Early Childhood Writing in English and Spanish in a Bilingual School in Ecuador

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Simpson, JoEllen M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 2004

The present study examines 20 writing samples in English and Spanish selected from portfolios of first grade children at a bilingual school in Ecuador. Based on earlier findings that paragraphs composed in English and Spanish by children, adolescents and adults are different (Lux & Grabe, 1991; Montano-Harmon, 1991; Reid, 1990; Reppen &…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Error Patterns, Sentence Structure