5. Teach What is Teachable
• Manfred Pienemann said that some things can be taught successfully where as other things, even after extensive or intensive teaching seem to remain unacquired.
• Those case is caused by learners have different sort of processing ability
• Some ways which are commonly done to help learners are :
1. Order of question
example :
s1 : Where you put your ‘kid of the week’ poster?
T : Where did you put your poster when you got it?
s2 : In my room.
2. Recast (corrective feedback)
Paraphrases of learner’s incorrect utterance that involve replacing one or more of the incorrect components with a correct form while maintaining the meaning.
example :
s1 : Is your mother play piano?
T : ‘Is your mother play piano?’ OK. Well, can you say ‘Is your mother play piano?’ or ‘Is your mother a piano player?’
s1 : ‘Is your mother a piano player?’
s2 : No
3. Providing the error and the correct one
for example :
s1 : Is your favorite house is a split-level?
s2 : Yes
T : You’re saying ‘Is’ two times dear. ‘Is your favorite house a split- level?
s1 : A split- level
T : OK
4. Giving a correction as imitation
for example :
S : Do the boy is beside the teacher desk?
T : Is the boy beside the teacher’s desk?
S : Is the boy beside the teacher’s desk?
• Based on Patsy lightbown (1998) suggested “ the teach what is teachable” is important primarily for helping teachers to understand why student do not always learn what they are taught.
• Pienemann responded by his interpretation that for learners cannot be taught what they are not developmentally ready to learn
• The result recommended to assess the learner developmental level and teach naturally based on the natural developmental course.