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Your Ideas about Grammar
1. What is grammar?2. Why to teach grammar?3. When to teach grammar?
4. How to teach grammar?
What is grammar?
• Traditional grammar: Part of speech(word category, structures) Prescriptive(based on rules of usage)
• Functional Grammar:
Focused on how word patterns make meaning Based on language use(Pragmatics) Descriptive (language as text/discourse)
Why to teach grammar?
• Historically, grammar school was to teach classical languages(Latin-written language, Greek, etc), which select students academically.
• Currently for the students to use in language construction(communication, academic writing)
When to teach grammar?
• Teacher chooses according to the curriculum of grammar course• Teach at the point of need(student-centered, task-based, activity-lead)
How to teach grammar?• Grammar-translation separately• Communicative approach integratedly(grammar in context with other
skills) Implicitly & Explicitly
How to teach grammar?
Process Analyse: Implicit or Explicit?
Step 1: Give students examples of the grammar concept you are about to cover. ()
Step 2: Provide the rules. ()Step 3: Give some more examples. ()Step 4: Have Ss come up with their own
examples through doing the assignments.()Step 5: Correction and explanation based on the
assignments.()
Implicit VS Explicit
Which is a better way?
Conclusions:
References:
• Kolln, M., Hancock, C. (2005). The story of English grammar in United States schools. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 4, 11-31. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
• How to Teach Grammar in High School | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_8030349_teach-grammar-high-school.html#ixzz23R4gIt00
• http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/• http://
www.eslbase.com/articles/grammar-implicit-explicit
Thank you!