Many introductions in academic writing are formed using a basic formula ("hook, connect, thesis"), but it takes more than a three-word prescription to help students write an introduction that will truly grab and hold the reader's attention. Try these ideas with your ELLs, and they will create introductions that will serve them well beyond composition class. 

This article advances an integrated theoretical and methodological framework for developing idiomatic competence in ESOL. The author presents a framework of theory and pedagogy to advocate for learning idioms in an explicit and systematic way befitting natural use in comprehending and producing idioms effectively and appropriately in actual context-sensitive social situations.