Objectives:
Learn how to teach grammar understanding and applying the following concepts:
- How works formal, prescriptive and descriptive grammars.
- Outline the advantages and disadvantages of deductive and inductive approaches to the teaching grammar.
- Four important principles for teaching grammar.
Justification
Grammar is often misunderstood in the language teaching field because the topic generates different point of views and attitudes. However, in most of the student, grammar give a feeling that the they can understand and control their knowledge when are learning a new language. Consequently, it is important that teachers understand how to teach it and the different elements that converge in the process such as method, types of grammar and techniques to help each student be successful in this area.
Introduction.
Teaching grammar is helpful to second language acquisition. There are different views about the topic. Some author from Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) method develop the strong view that the explicit teach of grammar is unnecessary because the learners will pick up the grammar subconsciously when they engaged in communicative language learning task. By other hand, others sustained that the explicit teaching of grammar is useful to second language acquisition. Although the CLT view is popular these days, the consensus is firmly in favor of teach grammar using an appropriate approach to understand that grammar has to do with how words are formed and it is all about how words are combined to form sentences.
Keeping this in mind the objective of the teacher is to help the learners focus on those concepts to understand how grammar works in their own acquiring learning process.
Development.
There are two basics
approaches to the teaching of grammar: the first is a deductive approach; the
second is an inductive approach. In the deductive approach, the teacher
explains the rule and then gives the learners exercises to apply and consolidate
the rule. In an inductive approach study samples of language containing a
particular grammatical rule and have to figure out the rule.
Activity I: Watch the following videos and find examples
of inductive and deductive approach.
Activity II-
Issue in Focus:
Deductive Versus Inductive Approaches to teach grammar. How can you use it to improve grammar?
Summary
Key Principles:
1- Integrate both inductive and deductive approaches into the teaching of grammar.
2- Use task that make clear the relationship between grammatical form and communicative function.
Focus on the development of procedural rather than declarative knowledge.
Encourage learners to use the language creatively rather than reproductively.
· Bibliography
Nunan, David (2015) Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.New York, USA: Rougtledge.
