How can you help an adult with poor grammer?

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• Answered at 11:57 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by:
  • ecodani
  
  I teach English and English as a second language.
  
  She does not read. I can always tell when someone does not read. Reading has 2 parts.
  
  1. She must read quality articles and fiction. Cosmo is not going to work. Dan Brown is NOT going to work. I can help you come up with a reading list if you want to msg me with some info about her. I like to find stuff the student will actually be interested in.
  
  2. She MUST read aloud daily for 10 minutes. The ear is trained differently than the eye. My students fight me on this one. The few who actually do it benefit tremendously. I've seen verbal SAT scores go up by 100 points.
  
  Message me privately if you wish. The more info I have about a student, the better the plan.

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  Answered at 7:27 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by:
  • JEAmom3
  
  You can help her if she is willing to be helped. Constantly correcting her will not help. She needs to slow down and listen to herself while talking, and think about each word before speaking it, until she gets in the habit of speaking correctly. If you correct her all the time and she does not feel that she is speaking incorrectly, it is only going to upset her. You can help her but she has to take the steps to make it happen.
• Answered at 7:29 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by:
  • Gailll
  
  Your boss could suggest she take an adult basic ed english course.
• Answered at 7:40 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by:
  • evwsquared
  
  I think that if she and you come to an agreement that you will help point out to her when she is slipping with her grammar, with no ill intent on your part, that might help the most. She's going to have to be conscious of what she is saying, but she may also need help realizing in which contexts she uses bad grammar.
• Answered at 7:57 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by: Anonymous
  
  point out that OP spelled GRAMMAR wrong. See simple.
• Answered at 7:59 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by: Anonymous
  
  Thank Anon I didn't notice I'd done that.
• Answered at 8:00 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by:
  • JackieGirl007
  
  Lol anonymous. Why does she have to change? as long as you can understand her, why shouldn't she be able to have her own way of speaking llike everyone else?
• Answered at 8:01 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by: Anonymous
  
  Maybe an English as a second language class would be helpful...
• Answered at 8:02 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by: Anonymous
  

  Because she a college educated professional. Speaking incorrectly isn't having your "own way of speaking."
• Answered at 8:22 PM on Nov. 6, 2009 by:
  • shay1130
  
  does her job require speaking to customers? I don't see the big deal if shes not having to talk to people

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