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Grammar

Traditionally it is an accepted practice to differentiate between scientific, or linguistic, grammar and pedagogic, or school, grammar. Both of them in­clude many types of grammatical descriptions of one and the same language based on different scientific principles [41, 114; 83, 121; 3, 6; 4, 5].

Jeremy Harmer, a methodologist from the USA, described the difference between scientific, or linguistic, grammar and pedagogic, or school, grammar in the following way: "Whilst the former may attempt to describe everything there is, the latter is designed to be of help to teachers and students of the lan­guage who need, as far as possible, clear and easily-digestible summaries" [69, 1211. Hence, the main aim of scientific, or linguistic, grammar is not to teach the language to learners, but to describe all grammatical phenomena and pe­culiarities of their usage which can be found in the language, while the main aim of pedagogic, or school, grammar is to produce a scientifically adequate description of grammatical phenomena of the language which would provide learners and teachers with an opportunity to easily comprehend the grammati­cal items needed in a short, effective and most rational way [27, 187].

The same principle in accordance with which active and passive com­mands of the language are distinguished can be used to differentiate between two types of pedagogic grammar which are as follows: Active Pedagogic Gram­mar and Passive Pedagogic Grammar.

The goal of pedagogic active grammar is to teach students the ways of using grammatical structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately in order to pro­duce speech utterances in their oral speech interaction or in written [4,6; 83,9].

The goal of pedagogic passive grammar is to teach students the ways of identifying grammatical structures by their specific grammatical signals (end­ings, suffixes, word-building affixes, etc.) accurately, meaningfully, and ap­propriately in order to understand the meaning of speech utterances in read­ing and listening [4; 5].

In other words, grammar teaching is to be not much knowledge transmis­sion but it'd rather be speech skills development [75, 255].

To teach students to produce speech utterances orally, active grammar for oral speech is used.

In active grammar for oral speech attention is paid to teaching students what they are to do when depending upon a certain idea they have to word it. In other words, with the help of active grammar learners are taught to choose the grammatical structures, forms and prosodic means of the language which are appropriate for producing and pronouncing a grammatically correct speech utterance orally or in written.

In the rules of pedagogic grammar for teaching foreign languages there should be expressed peculiarities not only of speech operations and actions but those of thinking activity of a person: conclusions learners might arrive at judging from the grammatical signals and markers, meaningful associations raised by the word or sentence structure, i.e. rules of pedagogic grammar must be based on the principles of cognitive linguistics. [27, 188].

In the example below the principle of active grammar is used in teaching the infinitive in the function of the modifier of purpose.

Suppose you want to say what the purpose of Pete's switching on the DVD is.

Use the verb denoting the purpose for which Pete switched on the DVD. Use

it in the form of the infinitive with the particle "to": To show... .

After the infinitive, use all the words referring to it: To show the animation...

You may place this construction before the subject (to the zero position in the

sentence)

0 1

To show the animation Pete...

After the subject place the predicate and all other members of the sentence:

0 12 3

To show the animation Fete switched on the DVD. Для того, щоб по-казати мультфыьм, Петре включив ДВД.

Besides the zero position in the sentence you may place the construction "To show the animation ..."to the fourth position in the sentence:

12 3 4

Pete switched on the DVD to show the animation.

You can use this construction with the conjunction "In order":

0 12 3