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UDK 378:801.89(045)
TEACHING GRAMMAR COMMUNICATIVELY
Satipbay A.
Supervisor: Dalmukhanova F.
Sh.Yessenov Caspian University of Technologies and Engineering, Aktau, Kazakhstan
Annotation. Learning grammar communicatively is based on grammar in context to
involve students in communication. There are some activities which help students to learn
grammar. Students do different types of activities to communicate fluently and accurately.
Key words: learning grammar communicatively, communicative methodology,
communicative competence, activities.
Introduction
Communication learning proved to be attractive to those looking for a more humanistic
approach to teaching, one that prioritized the transmission process. Communication learning
has become mainstream in educational circles, with the support of leading British applied
linguists, philologists, publishers at various institutions, including the British Council. All this
contributed to its rapid spread throughout the world. Provide participants with some strategies
and exercises that will make teaching grammar interesting and meaningful for the learners in
order to develop communicative competence.
The communicative methodology of teaching English is more focused on practical
needs: grammar - in a very limited form as needed, vocabulary - as needed for practical tasks,
practice - in the form of dialogues and life situations, Witlin wrote [1].
The development of a communicative approach to teaching foreign languages is based
on the communicative theory of language. The goal of language learning is what Hymes calls
"communicative competence". Hymes coined the term to contrast the communicative point of
view on language with Chomsky's theory of competence, who believed that language theory
deals with an ideal speaker-listener in a completely homogeneous speech community. Such an
ideal person knows the language perfectly and is not influenced by such factors as limited
memory capabilities, absent-mindedness, inconstancy of interest, etc. For Chomsky, the main
task of language theory is to characterize the abstract abilities of the speaker that allow him to
generate grammatically correct statements in a foreign language [2].
Hymes considered this point of view unfruitful, because language theory should be
considered as part of a more general theory of communication and culture. Hymes' theory of
communicative competence has become the definition of what a speaker needs to know in order
to be understood in a particular speech community.
Research methods
Firstly, the study mentions activities. It should combine useful forms and practical
activities, including communication activities, authentic materials, personalized context and a
variety of activities. When teaching grammar, teachers should organize some classes that should
be combined between grammar content and entertainment activities [3]. You should make sure
that this exercise can bring great success to the grammar lesson. The methodology of teaching
foreign languages as a science based on modern data of linguistics, psychology and learning
theory is still in a period of active development, especially since more technical teaching aids
are now used that bring us closer to the real environment of linguistic communication.
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Although the deep approach also has a strong influence, the article doesn't mention too
much about the "deep approach" as it is useless and unnecessary. The study considers only the
"shallow approach". Thornbury refers to a superficial approach to teaching a communicative
language based on the idea that in order to force students to use language in a communicative
situation, it is necessary to first learn grammatical rules and then apply them. they are in this
communicative situation. To master the target language, teachers need to help students
understand how to apply forms or structures when performing tasks, spoken languages or
written texts. In particular, students can know how to recognize form and meaning in a real
situation, and they can create both written and oral form. It is vital to create correct and
meaningful sentences in appropriate contexts. Therefore, teachers need to create real contexts
using suitable model structures. When developing assignments, teachers should ask their
students some questions, at least about presentation, practice and consolidation. The most
important thing is that the tasks should be related to structures or form-oriented. Based on the
structures, teachers can discover a wide variety of activities. There are some activities that help
students learn without any fear in the classroom, such as Role-playing, Games, Working in
pairs, Job Interviews.
Conclusion
The study contains three main points of discussion of grammar teaching, including the
principles and goals of grammar teaching, the position and role of grammar in communicative
language learning (CLT) in the context of EFL, as well as some pedagogical conclusions about
how to teach grammar in EFL in a communicative way. context. Communicative teaching of
English grammar plays a vital role in language teaching and learning. In particular, without
knowledge of grammar, understandable sentences cannot be understood. It doesn't make sense
or sense. The conversation may be good in content, but it may be bad in grammar, so it also
causes confusion in the listeners and they cannot understand the whole meaning. Because
people need to understand what others are saying, they can give accurate answers. When
teaching grammar, teachers not only give students the opportunity to express themselves, but
also meet their expectations regarding what learning a foreign language involves. In conclusion,
grammar teaching plays an indispensable role in learning English as a foreign language. When
learning English, it is necessary to teach grammar. The grammar translation method focuses on
accuracy and fluency, while the communicative approach focuses on fluency. Harmer (1997, p.
7) notes that "at this stage it is enough to say that the teaching of grammar, both explicit and
implicit, occupies a real and important place in the classroom." A clear command of the
grammatical structure and free communication will improve the communicative competence of
students, as well as improve their English language proficiency.
REFERENCES
1. Hymes D. Two types of linguistic relativity. - Cambridge. Cambridge University
Press, 2014. pp. 114–158.
2. Chomsky N. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. - Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 2005. pp.
70-72.
3. Halliday M. An Introduction to Functional Grammar. - Cambridge. Cambridge
University Press, 2008. pp. 117-120.