Ons Jabeur is a professional tennis player from Tunisia, now considered as one of the top female players in the world. She reached the top 10 in 2021 and hit a career-high No 2 in the rankings on June 27, 2022.
Jabeur is right-handed and is loved around the world for her varied game and dropshots as well as her attitude, very open to the fans, the media and other players. She is known as the “Minister of Happiness” and is the greatest tennis player of all time from Africa.
She has reached three Grand Slam finals; twice at Wimbledon and once at the US Open.
Learn
how to teach grammar understanding and applying the following concepts:
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How works formal, prescriptive and descriptive grammars.
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Outline the advantages and disadvantages
of deductive and inductive approaches to the teaching grammar.
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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.
