Teach English Writing Concepts
This lesson helps ESL students improve the quality of their writing, speaking and thinking by understanding the differences between correlation and causation.
Learning these vital concepts helps students write logical stories and essays by avoiding post hoc fallacies. It also helps them develop critical thinking skills and an ability to express complex ideas in writing and conversation classes.
Developing an ability to identity and evaluate cause and effect relationships is not easy for students, especially those coming from an education system that emphasizes rote memorization. Finding causality requires a degree of imagination and a willingness to inquire, to dare and explore ideas.
In that sense, imagination fosters understanding.
Lesson Purpose
By the end of this lesson, ESL students will:
- define correlation and causation
- explain the differences between the two concepts
- demonstrate that knowledge in practice exercises
- apply that knowledge in a writing assignment
