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Pointing the Way: A Teacher's Guide to English Demonstratives

Pointing the Way: A Teacher's Guide to English Demonstratives

Peridore, Stephen

Paperback

General Education

ISBN13: 9798196323621
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Pointing Code is a comprehensive pedagogical guide for English language teachers focusing on the four most common yet misunderstood words in the language: this, that, these, and those. While most curricula stop at basic physical distance, this book dives deep into the three domains of deixis-spatial, temporal, and discourse. It provides teachers with a systematic framework to help students move from 'Week One' basics to C1-level rhetorical precision. The book outlines detailed lesson plans using PPP, Guided Discovery, and Task-Based Learning models to address the specific needs of learners at every proficiency level. It also offers a deep dive into cross-linguistic interference, explaining why students from Japanese, Arabic, Russian, and Romance language backgrounds make predictable errors. By treating demonstratives as a complete orientation system rather than a vocabulary list, the book empowers teachers to close the gap between 'learned' and 'mastered, ' ensuring students can navigate physical space, time, and complex academic arguments with native-like confidence.

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