How to teach grammar

How to teach grammar

• Alice Chiu
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• What is grammar?
• What should be taught?
• How should it be taught?
• Examples of PPT slides
• Online Resources

1. What is grammar?

• Grammar is not…
• a discrete set of meaningless decontextualized or static structure
• prescriptive rules about linguistic form
• What is grammar then?

2. What should be taught? A 3-D Grammar Framework

• form/structure

• use/pragmatics

• meaning/semantics

• From: Larsen-Freeman, D. (2001). Teaching Grammar. (pp. 251-266). In Celce-Murcia, M. (Ed.) Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. (3rd Edition). Boston: Heinle & Heinle.

• How is it formed?

• What does it mean?

• When/Why is it used?

The advantages of the framework

• form/structure

• use/pragmatics

• meaning/semantics

• It makes teachers understand the scope and multidimensionality of the structure.

• It helps teachers to identify the challenges.