Education Information Series‚ No. 1 Vol. 39‚ 2010 Grammar Instruction for Adult English Language Learners: A Task-Based Learning Framework Jiuhan Huang Assistant Professor Regent University Abstract Over the past few decades‚ grammar instruction has moved from its central position in traditional language teaching approaches to playing virtually no role in communicative approaches. This article first gives a historical perspective of grammar instruction. Then it outlines the 10 principles of
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Estonian Business School Institute of Foreign Languages GRAMMAR OF SPOKEN ENGLISH Term Paper By Maria Esko BBL-2 Supervisor: Ludmilla Podolski Tallinn 2012 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Common Features of Spoken English 4 Grammar Characteristics 7 Clause Combination 7 Position of items 8 Pausing‚ Repeating and Recasting 8 Organising the discourse 9 Ellipsis 9 Response Tokens 10 Vague Expressions 11 Headers and Tails 11 Conclusion 12 References 13 Introduction
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Part 1: INTRODUCTION TO GRAMMAR 1. Introduction: what is grammar? phonology lexicology(lexicology + lexicography (voc)) phonetics syntax morphology pragmatics 2. Levels of Grammatical Analysis 390080512128525863551212850 2.1 Discourse(text level) consists ofimmediate constituent of shows cohesion cohesion can take form of ellipsis 2.2 Sentence(zin) 2.3 Clause(deelzin) main clause (can be textually dependent) subclause = subordinate clause (structurally dependent) with subordinating
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An article discussing the grammar-translation approach to language learning. At the height of the Communicative Approach to language learning in the 1980s and early 1990s it became fashionable in some quarters to deride so-called "old-fashioned" methods and‚ in particular‚ something broadly labelled "Grammar Translation". There were numerous reasons for this but principally it was felt that translation itself was an academic exercise rather than one which would actually help learners to use language
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The Grammar Translation Method The Grammar translation method‚ or classical method started when people wanted to read literature written in the target language. Its focus was on grammatical rules‚ the memorization of vocabulary and of various declensions and conjugations‚ translations of texts‚ doing written exercises. Rules of grammar‚ not the language itself‚ are all important. Verb declensions are set out tables‚ vocabulary lists to be learned‚ leading to translation from mother tongue into
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The Grammar - Translation Method[1] Introduction As the names of some of its leading exponents suggest (Johann Seidenstucker‚ Karl Plotz‚ H. S. Ollendorf‚ and Johann Meidinger)‚ Grammar translation was the offspring of German scholarship[2]‚ the object of which according to one of its less charitable critics‚ was "to know everything about something rather than the thing itself" (W. H. D. llouse‚ quoted In Kelly 1969: 53). Grammar Translation was in fact first known in the United States
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1과 N+입니다(Noun predication/Copula) ‘입니다’ is a descriptive particle meaning “to be”. It is attached onto the end of a given noun and serves as a predicate. It is used with reference to persons or things. 입니다 is the polite formal conjugation of 이다. (예) 저는 학생입니다. 이것은 책입니다. N+입니까? ‘입니까?’ is the question form of 입니다. (예) 저 남자는 학생입니까? 이것은 책입니까? N+이/가 아닙니다. ‘-이/가 아닙니다’ is the negation form of 입니다. (예) 저는 학생이 아닙니다. 저는 가수가 아닙니다. 2과 -은/는(Topic Particle) ‘은/는’ follows a noun‚ indicating that
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Contrastive Study of Grammar Translation Method and Communicative Approach in Teaching English Grammar Shih-Chuan Chang Department of Foreign Languages‚ Cheng Shiu University Chengcing Rd. Niaosong Township‚ Kaohsiung County‚ 833‚ Taiwan Tel: 886-07-731-0606-6212 Received: October 21‚ 2010 Accepted: January 11‚ 2011 E-mail: llc724@csu.edu.tw doi:10.5539/elt.v4n2p13 Abstract The Grammar Translation Method and the Communicative Approach have both played important roles in grammar teaching.
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TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS GRAMMAR? WHAT IS GRAMMAR? There are two definitions of grammar according to the Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms: • The systematic study and description of a language. • A set of rules and examples dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language‚ usually intended as an aid to the learning of that language. IMPORTANT IDEAS • • • • • 1. Grammar is broad. 2. Grammar has no clear boundaries. 3. The KS3 Framework for English
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