Teachin Grammar Creatively

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    TEACHING

    GRAMMAR

    CREATIVELYLanguage Awareness Activities and

    Creative Grammar PracticeMarija avar, prof.

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    Rules, Feelings or Chunks

    Adult learners frequently

    insist on being given

    rules about how and

    when a certain bit oflanguage is used

    Young learners and some

    adults seem to be more

    at ease with holistic

    method of learninggrammar in which

    structures are acquired

    subconsciously

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    You can teach the students the rules but you

    cant make them learn them

    Possible reasons:

    The students may simply not

    understand the rules

    (especially young ones)

    They are not ready yet

    Time lag between

    understanding and producing

    Rules are in opposition withmother tongue concept

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    Initial Stage of Grammar-Awareness

    Raising

    is what happens when the current state of thelearners grammar knowledge re-organizes itself inresponse to new discoveries

    Traditional presentation (teacher led)

    Awareness raising (learners led)

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    Discovery processes

    include inductionwhere learners are given

    some language data (such

    as examples of the targetgrammar item in context)

    and are then

    .ENCOURAGED TOWORK OUT THE

    RULES THEMSELVES!!!

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    Learning Grammar and the Human

    Brain We must try to

    incorporate into our

    model texts as much wit,

    metaphor, humour,fancy, absurdity and

    other imaginative devices

    as possible.

    Example:

    When teaching the

    genitive s a sentence

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    Grammar Interpretation Tasks

    Forcing learners to speak

    before they are ready may

    interfere with the mental

    processes involved inreconstructing their internal

    mental grammar.

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    thats why you make your students

    to:

    Read

    Listen to sentences

    Match the sentences

    Shortly, they interpret the

    grammar item before

    they use it

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    Teacher Roles in Language

    Awareness Lesson

    Be prepared to set an example yourself-that is, dontask learners to do things you wouldnt or wont do

    Allow the learners the relative privacy of pair and groupwork before asking them to personalize to the whole

    class Allow learner the right to pass if there are things they

    dont want to talk about Dont correct the learners language errors without

    providing on feedback on what they have said orwritten. Eg, That must have been exciting! By the waywe sayI felt nervous, not Ifell nervous." And always correctwith discretion and sensitivity

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    Creative Grammar Practice Lesson

    1) Lead-in activities

    a) Generally warming everyone up and getting them to work inforeign language

    b) Developing awareness of and interests in the topic you aregoing to work with

    c) Bringing known words back to mind and teaching new ones(brainstorming)

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    2) Presentation of a model text

    Shows the written form

    of the target structure

    Clarifies its meaning, use,

    function You can dictate it, read it

    on OHP or a handout

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    3) Reconstruction of a model text

    Process of eliciting from

    the students as accurately

    as possible the text

    presented to them earlier It can be done in spoken

    or written form

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    Text Creation

    Students create the text within the model they havebeen working with.

    Supply them with bilingual dictionary.

    Written form or orally presented texts (written formallows greater focus on accuracy)

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    Lets Try ThisTogether!!!