[jenniferp]

I agree, also, when it comes to matters of correction. If you are trying to encourage students to get a flowing rhythym to their speech it can be discouraging to them to be constantly pulled up for accuracy.
That's not to say that accurate and grammatically correct English isn't important but it is far more important to have the ability and confidence to form sentences and questions to make yourself understood.

I was reading another ESL forum where there was a fierce debate over some particular grammar points and the debatees had descended so far into their grammar books that they had lost sight of what the original question was asking and what the actual intention of the question was.
(Perhaps a little off the topic here, but it's an interesting point for ESL teachers to consider)

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