Teaching grammar

Teaching Grammar

By Puspita

Yudaningrum

What Is Grammar?

The Place of Grammar Teaching

Grammatical Terms

Presenting and Explaining Grammar

Grammar Practice Activities

Grammatical Mistakes

What is Grammar?• Grammar in General, grammar is sometimes

defined as ‘the way words are put together to make correct sentences’.

• Grammatical Structure is patterns to make a correct sentences. Every language has different grammatical structures.

• Grammatical meaning, grammar does not only affect the form of the sentence but also must have a precise meaning.

The Place of Grammatical TeachingComments : the place of grammatical teaching • Extract 1 -> Grammar not taught directly, but

indirectly with oral teaching like mother tongue.• Extract 2 -> The teacher help their students to

study grammar by providing and practice in the classroom.

• Extract 3 -> Learning grammar does not help in a real conversation.

• Extract 4 -> Don’t too focused to learn grammar because not all students are interested if only to learn about grammar.

Grammatical Term

• Unit of language -> smaller units of language are sentence, clause, phrase, word, morpheme.

• Parts of the sentence -> the most common part of sentence are subject, verb and object.

• Part of speech -> part of speech are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, modal verbs, determiners, and prepositions.

Presenting and explaining grammar• Stage 1 -> presentation• Stage 2 -> check and re-check our explanation• Stage 3 -> feedback with discuss with our students• Stage 4 -> Make guideline• Stage 5 -> Compare our guideline with other

guideline• Stage 6 -> Using another guideline.

Grammar Practice Activities

Type of grammar practice: form accuracy to in fluency:

• Awareness• Controlled drills• Meaningful drills• Guided, meaningful practice• (structure-based) free sentence composition• (structure-based) discourse composition• Free discourse

Grammatical mistakes

• Terminology -> errors ( which are consistent and based on a mis-learned generalization) and mistakes (occasional inconsistent slips).

• What is a mistake? -> mistake is something sounds or looks ‘wrong’.