If you were a high school English teacher who wanted your students to acquire knowledge of especially advanced syntactical sentence structures, your best course of action would be to:
A)Specifically teach them these structures
B)Teach them a wide variety of little-used English vocabulary words
C)Teach them the basics of a language very different from English-perhaps Arabic or Chinese
D)Wait until these structures emerge naturally-something that is likely to happen simply as a result of brain maturation

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The most effective way for students to acquire knowledge of advanced syntactical sentence structures is for the teacher to explicitly teach these structures. Waiting for them to emerge naturally will not ensure that all students will acquire these structures, and teaching vocabulary or a completely different language will not necessarily enhance syntactical knowledge.

If You Were a High School English Teacher Who Wanted