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through this that they can improve in their teaching. Moreover,
teachers should be equipped with discovering new ways of creative
teaching and designing interesting grammar games to make students
familiar with the rules subconsciously in the primary stage of second
language learning.
3. Teachers should pay attention to the occurrence of those errors in
order to provide relevant remedies as attempts to prevent the
students from fossilizing the wrong concepts of language usage.
Further, to enable students to write more accurately, they need more
practice on reading and thinking in English.
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