Unit 7 Teaching Grammar 英语教学法课件.pptVIP

Unit Seven Teaching Grammar Warming-up questions for  grammar teaching How did your middle school English teachers teach you English grammar? What do you think of this kind of teaching? The focus for today The place / role of grammar in ELT Proper understanding of grammar How can grammar be taught effectively? Grammar teaching has always been one of the most controversial and least understood aspects of language teaching. ‘Grammar teaching’ can mean different things to different people. Despite many different views about the role of grammar in language learning, the importance of grammar cannot be denied. Grammatical competence is essential for communication (Brown, 1994; Larsen-Freeman,1991) There is often an inadequate treatment of grammar in most communicative syllabuses, resulting in lower level of accuracy than the cases under formal instruction.(淡化语法）（Hinkel and Fotos, 2002) Most research has agreed that there is a positive role of instruction for grammar learning. Grammar teaching “can enhance learner proficiency and accuracy and facilitate the internalization of its syntactic system”. Diane Larsen-Freeman (1995): three dimensions of grammar The deductive method is criticized because: Grammar is taught in an isolated way; Little attention is paid to meaning; The practice is often mechanical. Merits of the deductive method It could be very successful with selected and motivated students. It could save time when students are confronted with a grammar rule which is complex but which has to be learned. It may help to increase students’ confidence in those examinations which are written with accuracy as the main criterion of success. The guided discovery method Similar to the inductive method in that the students are induced to discover rules by themselves. Different in that the process of the discovery is carefully guided and assisted by the teacher and the rules are then elicited and taught explicitly. Implicit knowl