| A Portal of English as a Second Language
Saturday July 31st 2010

English Grammar – 6 Tips For ESL Learners

2By Elizabeth O’brien

1. Find an English Speaking Pen Pal
Having a person to interact with can make a huge difference in the pace of your grammar acquisition. Your pen pal will introduce you to a conversational English that you may not get from books and lessons. Keep the conversations more about your life and less about your grammar questions. After awhile, you will have a friend to visit when you travel, and so will your pen pal!

2. Ask Questions
While you shouldn’t bombard your pen pal with questions, you still need to ask questions! So, where do you do that? Use Internet forums. Many of these forums are just brimming with friendly people who would love to answer your question and give you advice.

3. Read Fiction
Start reading English fiction at whatever level you can understand. Reading will help you to learn grammar inductively, and reading fiction will pull you along with a story that will keep your studies interesting.

4. Study Your Native Language’s Grammar
Knowing this will make it easier to understand English grammar. Although there will inevitably be differences between your first language and English, having an understanding of how grammar works in any language will make a huge difference. It will be easier to become familiar with grammatical concepts in your native language and transfer them to English rather than being bombarded with everything unfamiliar at once.

5. Learn Sentence Diagramming
After you have a fairly good grasp on English vocabulary, learning sentence diagramming can be a great way for you to learn English grammar. Sentence diagrams show the relationships between words by using a visual diagram. This makes it easier to learn and retain grammatical concepts.

6. Join an English Internet Community
When working toward any goal, it’s always good to have the support of other like-minded people. Joining an ESL Internet community gives you the ability to be connected to thousands of other English learners at once. From them, you can get help with issues you are facing, support and encouragement, and you can offer the same to other people!

As with adding any value to your life, learning English grammar will take patience and persistence. Keep working hard, and you will get there!

To learn all about English grammar and diagramming sentences see: http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com

Hello, my name is Elizabeth O’Brien, and I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Education and TESOL at the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire.

Soon after beginning my teaching career, I noticed that diagramming sentences was one of the most underrated ways to learn English grammar. Both my students and I found that diagramming sentences was fun, and it made grammar acquisition much easier.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Elizabeth_O’brien

  • Share/Bookmark

Reader Feedback

28 Responses to “English Grammar – 6 Tips For ESL Learners”

  1. Dear Amer says:

    I Love U

  2. Raexy says:

    thank you very much for the tips… ;)

  3. Rajapk says:

    THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR UR VALUABLE TIPS.

  4. shahriar says:

    Hi i want to learn english

  5. roomana says:

    i want to speak and write the correct way

  6. Muthar Ali Channa says:

    Thankyou, for give us good tips and to make English easy for us.

  7. Maha says:

    You are going good keep it up

  8. wsumithbandara says:

    learn to english

  9. God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

  10. Love your post. This is great information, and I’m really glad I found it. Keep up the awesome work.

  11. Ephrem says:

    i am intersted to learn sofumer english pls help me

  12. thank you for the Information. I often read here…

  13. Casino says:

    I’m not sure that I agree 100% with your blog post, but I did find it interesting.

  14. This is why I keep going to this place. I can not believe I missed so many posts since the last time!

  15. My name is Piter Jankovich. oOnly want to tell, that your blog is really cool
    And want to ask you: is this blog your hobby?
    P.S. Sorry for my bad english

  16. Versed says:

    How you find ideas for articles, I am always lack of new ideas for articles. Some tips would be great

  17. I always enjoy reading such insightful posts by a person who is so obviously knowledgable on their chosen subject. I’ll be following this blog with great interest. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing this site go from strength to strength!

  18. I don’t agree with everything in this posting, but you do make some very good points. I’m very interested in this topic and I myself do alot of research as well. Either way it was a well thoughtout and nice read so I figured I would leave you a comment. Feel free to check out my website sometime and let me know what you think.

  19. I really love your site! Thanks for sharing and keep it up. I will be back again!

  20. Toofan says:

    No matter what others say, I think it is still interesting and useful maybe necessary to improve some minor things

  21. I would like to express my appreciation for your post. That’s really great to know that there are such people like you who do their job very well and with such enthusiasm.

  22. great post! I thought the 3rd paragraph was very interesting

  23. Velia Ferenz says:

    Hey – nice blog, just looking around some blogs, seems a pretty nice platform you are using. I’m currently using WordPress

  24. Nice article. Thank you for this info

  25. Great article, i

    hope can know much information About it!

  26. Panic says:

    I just tried to subscribe to your RSS feed and it told me some kind of PHP error! Fix it?

  27. M.RAJENDIRAN says:

    thank’s for yours tips

Leave a Reply