Representing actions with nouns
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Teaching implications | page 1 of 8 |
Introduction
Students are likely to experience problems with nominalisation
in both their reading and in their writing, and therefore, they need to
familiarise themselves with this feature of English. In order to put the problem into
perspective, consider the following newspaper headline:
Selection announcement halts privatisation plans
In this particular headline there are four nominalisations. A student faced with a headline such as this has to try and work out answers to questions such as the following:
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Who has been selected? |
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Who selected someone/something? |
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For what purpose was the selection? |
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Who announced it? |
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To whom was it announced? |
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What was going to be privatised? |
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Who was planning this? |
This file outlines the problems associated with nominalisation, together with some suggestions for tackling these problems in the classroom. You may either read through the file page by page or jump to a specific page by clicking on one of the choices below.
Introduction
Focusing on reading - points to consider
