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

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