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On Interest of English Grammar Teaching 　　[Abstract] Grammar plays a significant role in language teaching. It is difficult for students to speak English without learning English grammar. However, the traditional teaching methods are so boring that modern language teaching tends to neglect grammar. There have been more and more teaching theories and teaching methods at present. In this paper, some features and rules of grammar teaching have been generalized. Besides, several teaching methods have been introduced and discussed to make students more active in the class and to enhance communicative activities between the teacher and students, so as to make abstract grammar teaching more vivid and interesting. 　　[Key words] English grammar teaching；teaching methodology 　　1. Introduction 　　Grammar is a set of rules for choosing words and putting words together to make sense. Every language has a set of grammar rules. However, with the growing popularity of the communicative language teaching approach, grammar is more and more neglected and grammar teaching is regarded as inherently “dull” or “old-fashioned”. As a consequence, the grammatical knowledge is not timely consolidated, internalized and converted into a practical ability. There are some problems in grammar teaching, which are generalized as “five emphases” and “five neglects”,[1]that is: emphasizing instilling knowledge while neglecting practicing skills; emphasizing explaining in detail while neglecting exercising; emphasizing written exercises while neglecting oral practices; emphasizing the analyses of grammar while neglecting the usage of grammar; emphasizing the mastery of rules while neglecting knowing examples. It is because of these problems and difficulties that grammar teaching is so boring for both teachers and students. 　　2. Features of English grammar teaching 　　There are some features of grammar teaching in the class which is worth noticing. 　　1). Activeness and interest 　　Grammar teach