English Proficiency Programme

Expression Exercise

(Common Local Language to English: CLL2Eng)

The spirit of this exercise is that those students of English, for whom it is not the first language, tend to write (and even speak) English by mentally mapping the information content of each sentence from another language in which their command is significantly better than English. At an advanced stage, we may shun this practice, but in early stages, we cannot avoid it. Indeed, we can utilize it as a strategy in a class in which we can manage to have a linguistic convergence of students at one Common Local Language (CLL).

The process:

At every stage of the process, the class is to be engaged actively with the student at the board through suggestions, criticisms, improvements etc.
As such, there is no harm if every student could not be brought to the board in the limited time allocated for this activity.
However, the selected text may not be over within the time. The remaining part can be covered through home-work or class-work, for which you may decide to demand only the translation - leaving the option of systematic dissection and ordering with the students.

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See also: Interpretation (Eng2CLL 1-2-3)

- Bhaskar Dasgupta