Teaching the Past Tense Verbs- A New Approach to Teaching Verbs

Abstract

Teachers are always trying to find new and easily comprehensible ways to teach different parts of grammar. The past tense and the perfective aspect on the verb are two rather difficult areas for ESL learners all over the world. ESL learners usually try several hypotheses before they can handle the past tense confidently. Especially, the Irregular Past poses problems for learners because all sorts of irregular verbs are covered simply by one blanket term. If they could be organized in a Morphophonemic classification, to make it easier for the learners to create file/folders that they can easily accommodate them in their learning process, and if the learning load can be reduced thereby, learners can grasp and remember them better and faster. This has been tried out with many ESL learners and it has been found working very well with them.