grammar – is to teach how to change the forms of words and how to combine
them in sentences. In other words it is mastering some action. (formation of
habits).
Grammatical habits are necessary for all the language activities: auding,
speaking, reading and writing. While listening to somebody’s speech we
pronounce what we hear in our inner speech and understand the meaning. When
we speak we hear ourselves and in this way controle our own speech.
Inner speech is also present in reading and writing. We pronounce silently
what we read and write. So the main task in practical teaching English is formation
of grammatical habits necessary for both reception (reading, auding) and
production (speaking, writing). We can’t speak, aud, read and write without
knowing grammar.
F. ex.:
We saw him book a ticket.
Over many centuries foreign language teachers have alternated between
focusing on teaching grammar and analyzing language in order to learn it and
encouraging students’ using language in order to acquire it .
This distinction was observable in the shift from the analytic grammar –
translation approach to the use - oriented direct method.
Analyzing structures and applying rules were common practices of the
grammar – translation approach and at present they lost their popularity. We have
witnessed the rise in popularity of more communicative approaches which
emphasize language use over rules of language usage. In fact, three language
teaching methods (or approaches), Community Language Learning, Suggestopedia
and the Communicative approach, devote a significant amount of classroom time
to promoting communication among students.
We used to believe that if students learned the form, communication would
somehow take care of itself. Now we seemed to believe that if students somehow
learn to communicate mastery of the form will take care of itself. At present, it
seems, grammar is again receiving its due. To maintain balance we must come to a
broader understanding of what it means to teach grammar. Teaching grammar
means enabling language students to use linguistic forms accurately, meaningfully
and appropriately.
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