My students are between 10 to 12 years old. They could not even write a simple sentence. For example, when they are told to write about their choices of things or hobbies, they would end up in chunks of words such as......"I like to go a bicycle everyday because a fun a very good exercise, I. My father bicycle with I......"
These types of chunks really got me so frustrated because the fact is I drilled those simple sentences everyday. It's the same when I assigned them with homework. They do not even want to try and prefer to copy the sentences which I wrote on the board.
Can't blame them because English is not their mother tongue at home and nobody would help them with their homework.
Sometimes they could not understand what I wrote and I have to translate them in the mother tongue.
