links for EAP teachers
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
The solution of this could be scene teaching
The problem is that solution of is usually used for chemical solutions; for problems we tend to use solution to. This re-usable link https://ske.li/solution__to__of shows this contrast – an extract is:
This link was created in response to a student writing:
This allows to develop qualitative methods of data collection
The reusable link is https://ske.li/this_allows and it looks like this:
If you want to make it more obvious what the problem is, you could use this link instead https://ske.li/this_allows_to as it also highlights the to-infinitive, providing a sort of input enhancement:
This link was created in response to a student writing:
This essay would state the benefits grammar teaching might bring
The link is https://ske.li/essay_will_conc and looks like this:
The link above shows a range of verbs co-occurring with this essay will. But this doesn’t indicate which verbs are most often used. Here’s a link that does this https://ske.li/essay_will_freq. It looks like this:
However this is a common way of introducing the purpose of other pieces of writing, not just essays, which means it attracts other types of error too such as this one:
This report will outline promoting children’s….
A first re-usable link, which focuses on the use of outline, is https://ske.li/will_outlinec, and it looks a bit like this:
A second link involving a reference to a wider range of genres is https://ske.li/essayreport_willv and looks like this:
