TEACHING GRAMMAR

The role of grammar in the classroom

Traditional grammar instruction, as it was commonly called, was criticized or its long-winded teacher explanations, it’s drills and drudgery, and its boring and banal exercises. Traditional methods that related on extensive drilling and merorization of grammar avoked a backlash in the 1970, which resulted in new methods that included grammar instruction in favor of “natural” communication in the classroom, new teaching methods appeared that replaced grammar exercises with meaningful communicative environments.

Implementing language awareness techniques: Language awareness have been found to be especially useful, user-friendly, and affective. These techniques should be sequenced as follows:

·         The student is exposed to oral or written structured input where the initial focus is on the meaning of the text.

·         The student notices the target structure and the context in which is occurs, this can include observation of syntactic patterning, judgments and discriminations, and the articulation of rules.

·         The student checks that the rule holds against further data and, if not, revises the rule.

·         The student uses the structure in a short production task.

 There are many techniques where can raise learner's consciousness of the form and function of targeted grammatical items, but we are going to mention some of them.

 1) Linguistic problem-solving

2) Error detection and correction

3) Restoring C-texts

4) Cloze procedure

5) Paraphase

6) Propositional cluster

7)Sentence combining

8) Grammaring

9) Dictogloss

10) Language games.

WORK IN GROUP

ACTIVITIES

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