1.1 Introduction
knowledge -- implicit or explicit – of grammatical rules is essential for the mastery of a
language.
There is a set of rules which govern how units of meaning may be constructed in any
language; thus; a learner who knows grammar is one who has master and can apply these
rules to express him or herself in what would be considered acceptable language, forms.
The learning of grammar should be seen as a means of acquiring a new language through
mastery of the forms as a whole, not as end in itself.
What does learning grammar involve?
learning time has to be organized for optimum efficiency. You must therefore prepare a
program of study, a syllabus, so that bits of the total corpus of knowledge are presented
one after the other for gradual, systematic acquisition, rather than all at once.
preparing an organized, balanced plan of classroom teaching/classroom procedures
through which the learners will spend some of their concentrating on mastering one or
more of the components of the target language on their way to acquiring it as whole. One
of these components is grammar. It may furnish the basis for a set of classroom activities.
When teaching any one of the grammatical structures, you should be getting your students
to learn quite a large number of different though related, bits of knowledge and skills: how
to recognize the example of the structure when spoken, how to identify its written form,
how to produce both its spoken and written form, how to understand its meaning in context,
and produce meaningful sentences using it.
knowledge -- implicit or explicit – of grammatical rules is essential for the mastery of a
language.
There is a set of rules which govern how units of meaning may be constructed in any
language; thus; a learner who knows grammar is one who has master and can apply these
rules to express him or herself in what would be considered acceptable language, forms.
The learning of grammar should be seen as a means of acquiring a new language through
mastery of the forms as a whole, not as end in itself.
What does learning grammar involve?
learning time has to be organized for optimum efficiency. You must therefore prepare a
program of study, a syllabus, so that bits of the total corpus of knowledge are presented
one after the other for gradual, systematic acquisition, rather than all at once.
preparing an organized, balanced plan of classroom teaching/classroom procedures
through which the learners will spend some of their concentrating on mastering one or
more of the components of the target language on their way to acquiring it as whole. One
of these components is grammar. It may furnish the basis for a set of classroom activities.
When teaching any one of the grammatical structures, you should be getting your students
to learn quite a large number of different though related, bits of knowledge and skills: how
to recognize the example of the structure when spoken, how to identify its written form,
how to produce both its spoken and written form, how to understand its meaning in context,
and produce meaningful sentences using it.
