Besides that, when these form one students write descriptive essays, they also make Preposition grammar errors. In a study done by Musa,Lie and Azman(2007,) showed that using the correct form of English grammar is the main problem with Malaysian students’ writing. The two recurrent grammatical errors in descriptive writing that form one students always make are the misuse of preposition agreements. In a research done by (Malini 2017) These grammatical errors often occur in form one students descriptive essays maybe due to the interference of their mother tongue and limited knowledge of grammatical rules and concepts. Consequently, these preposition grammar errors has made many of these form one students struggled even in building proper grammar free sentences while writing an essay.To explain further, in a research done by (Malini 2017)errors in preposition are the utmost highest among the form one students from different primary backgrounds as they intend to get confused or mix various preposition written in a body paragraph.
In a research conducted by Abu Bakr Nordin (2013) writing in Malaysian classroom are likely to be taught in an outmoded manner that seems likely to be very conventional in compared to current global changes. In simple words, writing in the Malaysian classrooms often remains conventional and students are mostly exposed to learning writing using English textbooks
Therefore, grammar learning has always been the conventional method.I as a teacher would love to change this and teach Preposition in a more engaging manner by using technology.
Preposition comes under many categories. There are preposition of place and movement, time, direction and place. It seems to be always hard to study preposition by only remembering the rules and doing drilling through worksheets.
Drilling might work with secondary students but for primary I as a teacher personally believe that we need to use videos and images to teach. It will help them understand the concepts even better.
I use videos because the videos are very interactive and engaging . It matches our 21st century learning whereby everything that involves teaching and learning needs to be 2 way teaching and not one way.
Hence I would love to share some of the resources I used to help me teach preposition for children. Please click the link below ;↓
Reference for the picture:freepk
References for the sources are youtube channel from:
1)Anglo-Link
2)Smile and Learn
3)Appuseries
4)itutoe
5)Malta Lingua English Language School
6)7ESL Learning English
References for the material resource is:
7)Liveworksheets
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