《英语教学法》课程教学课件（讲稿）Unit 7 Teaching Grammar

Unit SevenTeaching Grammar

Unit Seven Teaching Grammar

Warming-up questions forgrammar teachingHow did your middle school Englishteachers teach you English grammar?What do you think of this Kind ofteaching?

Warming­up questions for       grammar teaching  How did your middle school English         teachers teach you English grammar?  What do you think of this kind of          teaching?

Some problems in the traditionalgrammar teachingDetailed explanation of the rulesFocus on form than useTeacher-centerednessStudents' passive roleRules are too restrictiveEasy to forget

Some problems in the traditional grammar teaching Detailed explanation of the rules Focus on form than use Teacher-centeredness Students’ passive role Rules are too restrictive Easy to forget

The focus for todayThe place / role of grammar in ELTProper understanding of grammarHow can grammar be taught effectively?

The focus for today  The place / role of grammar in ELT  Proper understanding of grammar How can grammar be taught effectively?

Different ideas about grammar teachingStudents need to be given detailed grammarrules if they are to learn a foreign languagesuccessfully.Overt / explicit grammar teachinge.g. Grammar-Translation Method,Audiolingualism, etc

Different ideas about grammar teaching  Students need to be given detailed grammar rules if they are to learn a foreign language successfully. Overt / explicit grammar teaching e.g. Grammar-Translation Method, Audiolingualism, etc

I. The role of grammar in ELTGrammar teaching has always been one ofthe most controversial and least understoodaspects of language teaching.'Grammar teaching' can mean differentthings to different people

☻ Grammar teaching has always been one of the most controversial and least understood aspects of language teaching. ☻ ‘Grammar teaching’ can mean different things to different people. I. The role of grammar in ELT

We do not need to learn grammarbecause one learns one's mother tonguewithout studying grammar.No grammar teachinge.g. The Direct MethodThe Natural Approach

 We do not need to learn grammar because one learns one’s mother tongue without studying grammar. No grammar teaching e.g. The Direct Method The Natural Approach

Teaching learners how to constructgrammatical sentences does not enable themto produce real-life discourse.Covert / implicit grammar teachinge.g. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT)

 Teaching learners how to construct grammatical sentences does not enable them to produce real-life discourse. Covert / implicit grammar teaching e.g. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT)

Despite many different views about therole of grammar in language learning, theimportance of grammar cannot be denied.Grammatical competence is essential forcommunication(Brown,1994iLarsenFreeman,1991)

• Despite many different views about the  role of grammar in language learning, the  importance of grammar cannot be denied. • Grammatical competence is essential for  communication (Brown, 1994; Larsen￾Freeman,1991)

The ultimate goal of language teaching isto develop students' communicativecompetence, which includes both theknowledge about the language and theknowledge about how to use the languageappropriately in communicativesituations

The ultimate goal of language teaching is to develop students’ communicative competence, which includes both the knowledge about the language and the knowledge about how to use the language appropriately in communicative situations