DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE GRAMMAR TEACHING By Arnis Silvia (arnis.silvia@gmail.com) I. Introduction: What is Grammar Teaching and Why? In traditional setting‚ grammar teaching is seen as the presentation and practice of discrete grammatical structures. More comprehensively‚ Ellis1 (2006) defines grammar teaching as: Grammar teaching involves any instructional technique that draws learners ’ attention to some specific grammatical form in such a way that it helps them either to understand it
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Lecture 1 The importance of studying theoretical grammar English is generally acknowledged to be the world’s most important language. Why? 1) One criterion is the number of speakers of English‚ which is more than three hundred million‚ and English ranks well below Chinese. 2) The second is the geographical dispersal of the language. 3) The third criterion is that it is the language of Shakespeare 4) English is a language of powerful‚ productive and influential nations
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English Grammar For Economics And Business For students & professors with English as a Foreign Language Patricia Ellman Download free books at Patricia Ellman English Grammar For Economics And Business For students & professors with English as a Foreign Language Download free eBooks at bookboon.com 2 English Grammar For Economics And Business: For students & professors with English as a Foreign Language 2nd edition © 2014 Patricia Ellman & bookboon.com ISBN 978-87-403-0653-8 Download free
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Teaching Grammar Goals and Techniques for Teaching Grammar The goal of grammar instruction is to enable students to carry out their communication purposes. This goal has three implications: * Students need overt instruction that connects grammar points with larger communication contexts. * Students do not need to master every aspect of each grammar point‚ only those that are relevant to the immediate communication task. * Error correction is not always the instructor ’s first responsibility
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“indeed.” Grammar is the backbone of a language and without it any single thing you know may be flux‚ in a sort of jelly without much consistency. In a nutshell‚ grammar provides you with the structure you need in order to organize and put your messages and ideas across. It is the railway through which your messages will be transported. Without it‚ in the same way as a train cannot move without railways‚ you won’t be able to convey your ideas to their full extension without a good command of the
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child‚ the importance of being able to find and hold a steady job is obsolete in the mind. Growing older‚ money becomes more relevant in life because our society revolves around it. How would it feel to be denied a job simply because one’s grammar was below par? Grammar plays a huge role in today’s workplace because it acts as a gateway between the people you both working with and working for. Employers now a days are looking for people who have a healthy supply of writing and communications skills for
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Parts of Speech: A noun (N) - A noun is a word that names a person‚ place‚ thing‚ or idea. A pronoun (PN) - A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun or a group of nouns. A verb (HV‚ LV‚ AV) - A verb is a word that expresses action‚ link the subject to predicate‚ or helps the main verb make sense in a sentence. An adjective (ADJ) - An adjective is a word that modifies a verb‚ an adjective‚ or another adverb. Adverbs answer which one‚ what kind‚ how many‚ or how many. An
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Common English Usage and Grammar Errors Please do not make the following common errors (for a complete list‚ please see http://www.wsu.edu/ ~brians/errors/errors.html): Possessive Pronouns it its (not it’s‚ a contraction of it is; note: there is no such word as its’) you your (not you’re‚ a contraction of you are) they their (not they’re‚ a contraction of they are) who whose (not who’s‚ a contraction of who is) Other Common Errors everyday (adjective) vs. every day (noun) lead (present
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message. Functional grammar is an unconsciously learnt ability to manipulate the grammar of a language to suit the occasion; taking in ones social‚ cognitive and pragmatics‚ relating to the structure of the language. (Walter de Gruyter). Communicative competence is a subset of functional grammar and its approach in teaching will allow students to learn grammar through meaningful communication. Communicative competence is a speaker ’s internalized knowledge‚ both of the grammar rules of a language
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INTRODUCTION Based on the discussion of the validity of Noam Chomsky’s perception of Universal Grammar (UG)‚ some past & current researches which maintain & contest Chomsky’s UG from different areas are represented. The essay focuses on: 1) Chomsky’s Universal Grammar in brief‚ in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) context; 2) Evidences supporting Chomsky’s UG - views offered by linguists such as Williams and White‚ etc‚ to provide arguments to support UG pertaining
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