Teaching Grammar 语法教学

The inductive method
•In the inductive method, the teacher induces the learners to realize grammar rules without any form of explicit (clear) explanation. Students will become evident to the grammar rules if they are given enough appropriate examples.
Teaching procedures
•Advantages • inspire students’ thinking activities • motivate students’ learning interests • grammar is taught in context. •Disadvantages
4.Making students aware of grammatical information is one of the teaching objectives, allowing students opportunities for using the language is just as important. 5.Grammar should be taught to help students to analyze difficult structures in texts. 6.Teaching and learning grammar should focus on practice rather than the study of grammar itself. 7.Grammar should be taught and practiced in context.
II. The role of Grammar in ELT
• The value of grammar in foreign language teaching has been a focus of debate for decades, and no conclusion is in sight.
•Generally speaking, Chinese learners of English as a foreign language need a certain degree of mastery of English grammar.
•However, it should be noted that learning grammar itself is not the ultimate goal of learning English.
8.Knowing grammar is not enough for real communication. 9.An inadequate knowledge of grammar would severely constrain the capacity for communication. 10.Grammar will always be “the boring bit” of language learning.
2.Children do not learn grammar rules when they acquire their first language, so they do not need them either when learning a foreign language.
3.If students get enough chance to practice using a foreign language, they do not need to learn grammar.
Write down the first ideas that come into your head.
I. The importance of grammar
English grammar is the core of English language. Without grammar English language cannot be well constructed. There is naturally Chinese grammar in the minds of Chinese students, and it's not easy to take in the grammar of a foreign language. If you cannot solve this difficulty, the foreign language you write, though it may be understandable, will be Chinese style English.
Task
Suppose you are going to teach the structure"used to do" in a deductive method. How would you do it? 10 minutes preparation and then demonstrate)
The deductive method
The deductive method relies on reasoning, analysing and comparing.
1. Deductive method: The deductive method relies reasoning, analyzing and comparing. Teaching procedure
over emphasize the roles of grammar
overlook the roles of grammar
The answer to whether grammar should be taught and to what extent grammar should be taught depends on some variables in the language teaching/learning context, such as learner variables and instructional variables.
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Deductive method:
Advantages: • good for selected and motivate students • save time to explain complex rules • increase students’ confidence in examination Disadvantages: • grammar is taught isolatedly • little attention is paid to meaning • the practice is often mechanical
It is generally believed that • Grammar teaching is less important for children than for adults; • Grammar teaching is less important in listening and reading than in writing.
1. How grammar is currently taught • Task 1 •Read the following statements about grammar in English learning and decide if you agree with them or not.When you have finished, compare your results with your partner. Try to give reasons for your decisions.
The Assumptions about grammar in language learning
1.Students need to be given detailed grammar rules if they want to learn a foreign language successfully.
For many years Chinese teachers of English have followed the traditional way of teaching grammar as the following three steps:
Two extremes in grammar teaching
2.Place of Grammar in English teaching? • Grammar is not a separate `subject', nor is it even a separate division of English work. • Language teaching theory has tended to emphasize the rapid development of automatic speech habits, and the need to discourage students from thinking consciously about the underlying grammatical rules.
Teaching Grammar
Aims of this Unit
Activity Grammar is….
What do you think and feel about grammar? ----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Must a learner learn grammar when using a foreign language?
• Grammar teaching can be seen in most formal classroom language teaching.
III. Grammar presentation methods the deductive method （演绎法） the inductive method （归纳法） the guided discovery method (引导发现法）
2.Place of Grammar in English teaching?
Advocates of the `Oral Method', the Audiolingual method' and the Natural Approach in their more extreme forms have assumed that language learning is an inductive rather than a deductive process, the most effective method of teaching is to provide plenty of oral and written practice, so as to use the language spontaneously (本能地) without the need for overt(明显的)grammatical analysis.