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Airya Posted 16 years ago
Teaching

How to think in English

Hello

I'm an English teacher in Iran. Some of my students want me to help them think in English. I mean they don't want to think in Persian and speak in English. I showed them some ways like studying in English, watching English movies, sort of things. I would be grateful if you share your ideas with me.

Thank you.
  

Top answer

There is no way to teach that. Thinking in a second language comes only with fluency. However, that is helped along by such as you suggested: doing things in English.

— Mister Micawber

  • There is no way to teach that.
  • Thinking in a second language comes only with fluency.
  • However, that is helped along by such as you suggested: doing things in English.
  • Try to keep them away from their dictionaries and always making an effort to figure out word meanings from context first.
  • Read for general meaning, not for detail, so that each unknown word need not be checked in the dictionary.
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There is no way to teach that. Thinking in a second language comes only with fluency. However, that is helped along by such as you suggested: doing things in English.

Try to keep them away from their dictionaries and always making an effort to figure out word meanings from context first.
Read for general meaning, not for detail, so that each unknown word need not be checked in the
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Yo

Good question HEY.

One way is to do math in English.

Try it that will work.

Me.
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Hi,

English Language is very important in our day to day life. So we need to learn English fluently. To think over English we need to practice talking with friends, learning English papers, magazines, story books, watching movies, listening to bbc or cnn news or any other things that to think in English.

Thanks.
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Actually, course of math in English would be very helpful. I teach math in En. This is a very good idea.
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Google may help a lot with the vocabulary. But first you can view some math videos online so they give you a general idea. Everything depends on what your needs are. There are math books in English which you can order or buy in a local store. It's not super hard.
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hello,
The best ways to learn how to think in English and put your mother language aside are ;
practice English
read English fictions because they contain a lot of events which may support this skill
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