- •Teaching Grammar
- •D Observation task
- •Input reading 1
- •Exploratory task 1.1 Give the normative parallels to the following sentences
- •Input reading 2
- •Element production
- •Prediction of the next steps
- •Next step production
- •Input reading 3
- •Produce a list of your favorite and most successful techniques of teaching grammar
- •Exploratory task 3.1
- •Exploratory task 3.2
- •Exploratory task 3.4
- •Exploratory task 3.5
- •Exploratory task 3.6
- •Exploratory task 3.7
- •Exploratory task 3.8
- •Exploratory task 3.9
- •Exploratory task 3.10
- •When did it stop raining. A/How long hasn't it been raining? b/ When wasn't it raining?
- •You've been talking on the phone for two hours. A/ You've just stopped talking on the phone. B/ You started talking on the phone two hours ago.
- •Observation task 3.1
- •Input reading 4
- •Exploratory task 4.2 Try to give rules to the following language samples (all language samples are grammatically correct and have a certain sensible communicative message)
- •Exploratory task 4.3
- •Exploratory task 4.4
- •Stage of teaching (e.G. Material presentation, meaningful drill, communicative production etc)_________________________________________________________
- •Integrated task 4.1
- •Answer keys
- •Glossary of Grammar Terms
- •References and Further Reading
Stage of teaching (e.G. Material presentation, meaningful drill, communicative production etc)_________________________________________________________
Level of learner language (elementary, intermediate, advanced etc)______________
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Integrated task 4.1
Describe your teaching situation
Supply the theoretical rationale for teaching
Design the activity and run it with your students or in your peer group
Reflect on the activity critically referring to external feedback as well.
Make suggestions for improvement
Answer keys
SAQ 0
1T Yes, grammar describes the rules of how the language produces sentences using the words and their morphology as the building blocks.
2D Grammars study and describe not only the mainstream norm of "correct language" (most typical cases) but also authentic varieties of language use.
3D Traditionally grammar theories studied the construction of written sentences, but recently grammar of speech has become the subject of studies
4F Grammars for academics, teachers and learners will be different. Academics will be interested in the grammar description. Teachers will be interested to know more about grammar instruction. Learners will want grammar for language use.
5D It is difficult in many cases to draw a line between correct and totally incorrect grammar. It is easier to do so in written language, than in oral utterances.
6D Yes, teaching grammar is teaching the construction of sentences but to be able to speak fluently it is also necessary to know the "ready made" language chunks
7F Bi-lingual exercises can be quite useful for the purpose of drill and testing
8D It depends on the individual cognitive style to decide whether rules or examples should come first. Deductive learners benefit from the rule coming first. Inductive learners are better able to induce the rule from language examples
9D Rules are indispensable in teaching grammar but there are so many exceptions to them in the real-world language
10D Drill is very essential in teaching grammar but learners also need analysis and comprehension of how the language works
SAQ 1.1
1T Yes, grammar describes recurrent language. The beginner learners are certainly given the most typical recurrent language structures, but the more they learn the language the more they know about numerous less typical recurrent forms.
2T Grammar gives classification of the language, which is based on the form, meaning and function. E.g. parts of speech are word classes with their typical forms, meaning and function in the sentences
3T An utterance can be grammatical but incorrect from the point of communicative meaning and language authenticity. E.g. "I study long hours of English" does not sound authentic though it is grammatical ("to work long hours" sounds better)
4T The so called "language inaccuracies" can be norms for certain age groups and dialects. E.g. "No nothing here" is the norm for spoken English meaning "There is not anything here"
5D Declarative knowledge can be that of rules and language samples
6F The term "procedural" is applied to language skill. The knowledge of rules is declarative, i.e. the learners can recite the rules without being able to perform the speech "procedure".
7D Explicit, i.e. declarative grammar knowledge can help develop implicit, i.e. procedural grammar skills, but explicit and implicit grammar knowledge are in a way autonomous from each other
8T The terms "grammatical" and "correct" are not synonyms. The phrase "He goed" can be considered ungrammatical but temporarily "correct" for the child language, because it is typical for very young native learners of English
9T Grammar of written and spoken texts is different. Spoken texts have many elliptical constructions, repetitions, self-corrections etc. Written texts have longer and better shaped phrases, more logic in dealing with the topic etc.
Exploratory task 2.1
A 1,2,7,6
B 2,4
C 1,2,4,7
D 1,2,7
E 2,3,4,5
SAQ 3.1
1B 2C 3D 4F 5E 6H 7A 8G 9J 10K 11L 12I