USING PROVERBS IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Keywords:
proverbs, lead-in activity, English teaching, purpose, the process of learning, culture.Abstract
Teachers often find it difficult to keep their students’ interest high in learning English. They have to do their best to attract the students’ attention to the subject so that the students may have a feeling of pleasure while learning, and they are enhanced to learn more at the same time. Using English proverbs can serve as an alternative lead-in activity to start new lessons to keep the students interested in the lesson from the beginning.
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