This week’s reading, the study of syntax, is quite interesting to me. In fact, it is much fun to draw tree diagrams. Tree diagrams are a good approach used to analyze a sentence structure and see what components form it. With the use of the tree diagram, it is a suitable pedagogical solution for beginning or intermediate learners to learn a languages like English, I think. I remember when I first got the United States; while reading textbooks, I took some long sentences apart and analyzed the grammatical structures on the books. Without the analysis, I couldn’t really get the whole sentence’s meaning. It took me a while to get familiar with the English structures, but now I seldom set them apart. Of course it is not necessary for ESL learners to draw a tree diagram, but it is one of ways for them to better their understanding of a sentence structure of English.
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wow, Lilian, I bet it must take a lot of your time to analyze while reading.
ReplyDeleteHi leping, I think so too. My reading speed was very slow but it's better now.
ReplyDeleteWow, Lillian, I can't believe you did that! I guess it makes sense when I really think about it... but it never occurred to me that structural analysis or diagramming could be so useful for ELLs. :) It seems like a useful tool for improving comprehension and syntax.
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