Байланысты: COLLECTION of Сonferences XXIV «Akhanov readings» 2021
1. Both critical thinking and contextual grammar improve language acquisition in students. Language acquisition is the process which measures the student’s perception of language
rules and being aware of language itself. It’s considered that original contextualized grammar can
bring grammar in life. It happens in cases of proper teaching approaches. J. Stalker recommends to
not to get confused with the terms as “grammar” and “usage”. He describes grammar as a theory of
language and its usage as representation in practice [2].
We have two controversial grammar types: grammar knowledge vs grammar skill. As
knowledge, grammar is fixed set of rules, learned in deductive way. As a skill, grammar is learned
inductively, grammar is not just set of rules, but pattern that produces communication (making clear
and accurate). Deductive is Rules → Examples, exercises. Inductive is Examples → Rules. In
contextual approach, deductive is used by giving association, analysis, thinking first, followed by
traditional form of rules it the end.
The perception of language is closely related to term memories, procedural and declarative.
Both are widely used in process of contextual grammar. First type is the same as learning native
language, approves automatic process, via repetition and using endlessly in practice. The second
term is about recollecting the information that the learner has already studied earlier.
It is similar to how critical thinking might work in classroom. In brain, back side is
responsible for gathering the information (sensory and post sensory). The front of the brain is good
at creating (frontal integrative cortex). The up side and down side are for testing (premotor and
motor) and reflect (temporal integrative cortex) respectively. So, when a student reads a text in
English or other foreign languages, the information will go to the back side of the brain and will be
gathered there just as stock. But it is possible to use our brain system more effectively. For that,
when brand-new information comes to our brain, it is better to reflect upon it → to create
associations, any relations regarding that information in order to remember it → to test it and to try
it out → and at the end to send it to back side so that we might keep that for long time. This will
obviously help to acquire language and use it properly in practice.