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Teaching ESL In Chinatown Summary

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Book Review Sulaiman Alqadhibi BLMC.555 Dr. Erin Laverick Dec. 11, 2014 Fu, D. (2003). An Island of English: Teaching ESL in Chinatown. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Introduction This paper first will summarize Danling Fu’s book, An island of English about teaching ESL in Chinatown by mentioning the big picture, the main points, what the book is about and the purpose of writing it. Next, briefly I will critique the most important features in her book that is written. Furthermore, a discuss how these characteristics might contribute and affect to the readers during their reading. After that, I will discuss some of the author’s main points that could be useful to the field of teaching ESL. Thus, a conclusion will be given offered …show more content…

This was because the curriculums designed and the traditional teaching approaches that teachers followed in their classes. I welcomed her idea of splitting students to groups depending on their English proficiency level thus giving each group an assignment appropriate for their level. Although this idea is great it has one fault which could be that students might get disappointed if they realized they do not meet the standards to be in the advanced group. In the same way, when I was a student in a school or university I faced the same difficulties learning English. Teachers always want to drill the information to students without accurate strategies that encourage and assist the students to learn and accept the new language. Their goal was either to prepare students for the exams or they wanted to finish their course early. This problem that I faced was not only in studying English but also in other …show more content…

I completely agree with her that pattern books. They are a genius approach for beginning learners. Therefore, I will use them for kids in my writing and reading classes such as Brown bear, Brown bear, what do you see? In addition, pattern books have sequence events and repetition phases that would help students to memorize words and sentence patterns. On the other hand, I admired Fu's idea that greatly was to integrate the social studies of America in the CLA program. Fu knew that the Chinese students wouldn’t benefit much from learning the Chinese arts as long as they were in America. From this view, as a teacher I should be aware of students’ primary language and

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