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成人学生语法教学新思路摘要:语言教学的最新发展对语法教学提出了许多质疑。传统的语法教学方式受到交互式语言教学法的冲击。怎样有效地讲授英语语法、怎样把语法课讲得妙趣横生是我们面临的问题。文章探讨怎样在语境中利用交互式教学法来讲授语法而不是孤立地讲授语法。 关键词:交互式教学法 语法 教学 Abstract Recent developments in language teaching have left many doubting about how to teach grammar. How to teach it effectively and meaningfully is the problem we face. The traditional ways of grammar teaching has been beaten by the communicative approaches. This paper tries to introduce some interactive methods of teaching English grammar in context instead of in isolation. Introduction In designing a language class, one of the first things is to identify the influential factors that have to be taken account. At least the designer should consider the features unique to the learning of a language. Learning a language well always means the use of ears, mouth, hands, brain, etc. as well as the eyes. This will mean significant adjustment of a learning class involving a lot of contents including the materials and the activities. And this is one of the reasons why modern language classes are usually all communicative, with very rare exceptions. The students? background 1. Features of adult learners If a language class is communicative, it is then basically learner-centred. Therefore most of the influential factors in the designing of such a class will be very much related to or decided by the nature and need of the learners in question. A language-teaching plan may be viewed as the teachers? main guidelines, but it is the students who are set to benefit. Therefore when planning a class, first one has to learn about the learners, who the learners are and what they do. Research has shown the differences between adult and child language learners, which must be considered in the planning of a language class. Birchbichler(1984) summaries 10 characteristics of adult language learners, which may serve as a guide for the class planning. Adults, for instance, are more likely to be learning rather than acqui