MYTH NO. 4: The importance of Free Composition
was Head of the Department of English,
University of Calicut, Kerala
Hill’s Comment: If we give our students free compositions to do before they know enough English to do them properly, we are not only wasting their time and ours (corrections!) we are doing active harm to the students’ English. … What should we then do? We should begin with controlled composition, in which the student practices writing what he has already learnt, until he knows enough to be able to launch forth into free composition.
CONTD…
S. Velayudhan
Former Director, RIESI, Bengaluruwas Head of the Department of English,
University of Calicut, Kerala
Courtesy: Perspectives on English Language Teaching by J. M. Ure and S. Velayudhan
Collected by: P. K. Jayaraj and R. Gangadhar, RIESI, Bengaluru
Thanks a lot for that.Read myths of ELT n gained some new insights into ELT.Please keep enriching young budding teachers like me.
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CHANNABASAVA ASPARI,a participant of 6 day TDP.
I feel freecomposition needs a lot of monitoring.Often we teachers take it for granted that it is a liberty granted to the students to write whatever comes to their mind .if we could guide them by constructive intervention even freecomposition becomes a guided one!
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