English countries and tend to forget the fact that most countries such as Pakistan have English as their second language, in which case, their theories about the society shaping a child’s grammar proves wrong. In Pakistan we need grammar books to shape a child’s English speaking and writing skills .From the elementary level, children are asked to write an essay and for that grammar is very important .Otherwise they will make errors in writing. Children doing O level need these books to teach them what the society doesn’t.
Apart from this, there is not correct use of grammar in Pakistan and most people use broken, bad English for example, majority people in Pakistan use past tense with didn’t while others don’t, know the proper use of it at
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Besides reading and writing, grammar also help in speaking as someone will know the rules of grammar he/she can easily think sentence while talking to others. Now there are very good activity books of grammar that are being taught in private schools and through activity base learning, students take much interest to learn the grammar rules in class. They like to work in pairs and groups to show their interest towards grammar. Teachers can also design meaningful tasks for teaching grammar to make the lesson more easy and interesting for the learners.
In spite of these theories, nobody can deny the role of grammar in learning language. If someone will know the proper rules and structure of grammar, he will make less grammar mistakes in speaking and writing as well. Taking English as a second language we have to put our own efforts to learn grammar and its proper usage .When students will have grip on tenses and will know the sentence structure using noun, pronoun, verb and adverb etc, they will show much interest in learning grammar. They will also enjoy the activities related to grammar in pairs and groups in class
In Pakistan, age is but a number; women’s age means nothing to the society. All women suffer the same whether they suffer physically, mentally, or emotionally. Laila’s mother suffers emotional when she hears that her two sons die in the war. A vast majority of Pakistani women are forced to marry young and do whatever their husbands ask of them, ranging from cooking and cleaning to being forced to have sex. Along with that, almost all of them are beaten by their husbands, and are forced to wear a burqa when in public.
The value orientation of Charanjit and her family involves the respect of everyone, especially their elders. Despite her busy schedule, Charanjit’s mother raised her children to be polite. She taught them that if they respect others they will receive respect in return. According to Hofstede’s Value Dimension Model found on the Geert-Hofstede website, India scored quite high on the power distance dimension, meaning that they appreciate hierarchy within their culture.
Because, we have never faced challenges like they do. These people’s main wish is to stay alive and to live a peaceful life with their loved ones. If we ask what is the main wish of ordinary Americans, we would definitely not hear an answer as to stay alive. This is the least thing we think about in our daily lives. But, for ordinary Pakistanis staying alive is the major goal.
Good grammar counts everywhere you go, especially in the work place. Both Susan Adams and Kyle Weins make great points in their articles. They both believe that using bad or good grammar shows your level of intelligence. Adams grew up with parents that was big on grammar. Grammar was a pet peeve in her house, in the article she mentions one.
They are also important at home where children learn their first grammatical concepts from their parents. If you grow up learning incorrect grammar, it puts you at an immediate disadvantage. At some point in their life everyone wants to be a leader and grammar and communication skills are absolutely necessary to effectively give directions and provide assurance of leading ability. With the United States being mixed with different nationalities and foreign language speakers, hearing consistent, proper English would encourage newcomers in becoming fluent. Being a new resident of the United States and an English learner, I try to speak as good as possible and I really think that people can’t tell that I am not a native English speaker.
On very special occasions, people would order pizza to eat for the celebration. When I was in Pakistan, I did not like pizza at all. The pizza that they made in Pakistan would be cold, and they would not deliver fresh pizza. Also people could not even warm up the pizza because in Pakistan not every person has ovens like Americans do here. People there usually cook their food on stoves made from mud by burning wood.
The school system in Pakistan just did not seem right anymore, I missed my school in Canada which I had attended for just a year. I struggled to live in Pakistan for three years and in 2008, my mother decided
Living in the United States, the country that is entitled to freedom of speech unlike any other countries, as stated in the Declaration of Independence “People have unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness “. Has made Americans believe that they are entitled to numerous privileges as stated in the article “College students Need Lessons in Tolerance and Free Speech” written by Peter Scheer. Americans are fortune to live free not under a revolutionary dictatorship like Cubans and many other countless countries, which are deprived from multiple rights. Even worse, like Syria, who are being dominated and being killed by ISIS. The same terrorists who have caused several catastrophes around the world like
Curzan argues that it is discouraging and difficult to have a student ask questions about grammatical rules and not being able to give an appropriate answer due to different grammatical rules. Curzan summarizes her article by saying that grammar is a very crucial issue to every tutor. When learners have a lot of grammatical errors, it is sad since this shows that they never learned correct grammar,
Academic Challenge Davideen “Dee” Treybig Name That Grammar Skill! A Challenge to Enforce Grammar Skills Targeted Outcomes: Creativity and Collaboration Indicators: Seeking the original and integrating seemingly unrelated ideas; contribute to and invest in a group vision Essential Question: How is grammar important to my success in communicating with other people? Background Information/Teacher Notes: 9th grade freshman English students attending my class in the first quarter of the year after several weeks of community building activities and less demanding challenges such as our full value contract creation, a good reader handbook; review of the six traits writing skills, which includes conventions; and various W.A.S.H. and CS/EBD activities.
1. There are numerous cultural differences between Canadians and Pakistanis. I migrated form Pakistan to Canada and the biggest difference that I have notices myself was the amount independence that Canadians have compare to the Pakistanis. To begin with, the idea of independence in the true form exist in Canadian culture as independence in Pakistan comes with several regulations and restrictions and not many people will consider that a true independence. In Pakistani culture no one can be truly independent as the family bond with the family leads anything related to the self.
When he goes to the Philippines he doesn’t act like he is from Pakistan. He acts like an American because he wants to feel like he fits in. He hates that he didn’t embrace his Pakistani roots, but wants to fit in and not feel different from the rest of the people. “I attempted to act and speak, as much as my dignity would permit, more like an American”(Hamid 65). He also feels like he fits in when he is in New York.
The first problem that everyone faces here is speaking and understanding english, but this was not a big problem for me, because I can speak English, the only problem that I had with it is grammar. And I was shy. As time passes by, I was getting used to that. The next challenging thing for me is schooling system, because it was different from Pakistan. In Pakistan, we basically use to speak Urdu in schools, while most of ours books were in English (British English).
Due to the digital age everything we do is based on writing we communicated through writing with text messages. Grammar is important because it shows your level of professionalism and intelligence. (Wiens) Good Grammar is necessary for every job but especially for jobs that require grammar like reading a writing if your job requires reading and writing than good grammar is very important. Grammar is necessary for any job because now a days the most common methods of communication is text and talking if you speak and write like a two year old no one is going to take you seriously. (Adam)
I have learned so much through research, my peers, my class, and through my own personal experience how grammar can be best taught in the classroom. Every student needs to be given a positive learning experience on grammar. Grammar will carry into every aspect of their lives. It is important to me as a teacher to build my students foundation to have a good knowledge of grammar. I hope that I can be the teacher that my students look back on and remember how fun it was to learn in my classroom.