Folse provides a lot of practical information in his book that is beneficial to the teacher as well as the learner. He gives many teaching suggestions and real exercises that give the students ample opportunity to practice what they have been taught. It is important in teaching to diversify assessments because it is possible that one student may not be as strong in fill in the blank as they are in multiple choice and other students may be better at oral assessment than written. I think that his book gives really helpful suggestions on teaching that are easy for a new teacher to follow because rather than giving long explanations about the different topics, because there are so many, he gives the most important details and then he gives real …show more content…
Like many native speakers, I learned these things naturally, but I could not actually explain them to others. Grammar teaching is complicated because there are the questions, how should it be taught, what should be taught, and when should it be taught. Although there is no definite way to answer this, Pinker, Folse, and Ellis give some insight into how to answer these questions by which a reader is able to make their own conclusions. Language is a part of our identity. The moment we open our mouths, people are instantly able to make judgements, whether true or false, about us. This is because we adapt the speech that we are surrounded with, and subconsciously it becomes a part of who we are. The capacity of an infant to develop speech depends on the capability of the child to differentiate between phonemes. They must first decipher the sounds of speech and then words which carry meaning and this whole process before the infant is even one-year old. They are then able to replicate and imitate speech that they hear and are even able to create unique phrases. They show signs of ability to communicate verbally through babbling, single words, and then two-word speech until they are able to speak at a level of fluency. This is inherently different from the process of second language acquisition and as an ESL teacher, being able to differentiate these processes is vital to the success in being able to effectively teach English to non-native