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ATTITUDES TO GRAMMAR, . - Coggle Diagram
ATTITUDES TO GRAMMAR
CASES FOR GRAMMAR
(2) FINE-TUNING ARGUMENT
particularly the case for written language,
which generally needs to be more explicit than spoken language
'Me Tarzan, you Jane' - type language fails to deliver, both in terms of intelligibility and in terms of appropriacy.
Example
The teaching of grammar, it is argued, as a corrective against the kind of ambiguity represented in the example.
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(6) RULE-OF-LAW ARGUMENT
It follow from the discrete item argument since grammar is a system or learnable rules. It lends itself to a view of teaching and learning known as transmission.
A transmission view sees the role of education as the transfer of a body knowledge from those who have the knowledge to those who do not have. A view is typically associated with the kind of institutionalised learning where rules, order and discipline are highly valued.
A situation of a large classes of unruly and unmotivated students offer the teacher a structured system that can be taught and tested in methodical steps where the teacher allows the learners to experience the language through communication.
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CASES AGAINST GRAMMAR
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(3) ACQUISTION ARGUMENT
Acquisition is a natural process. It is the process by which the first language is picked up, and by which other languages are picked up solely through contact with the speaker of those languages.
According to Krashen, acquisition occurs when the learner is exposed to the right input in a stress-free environment so that innate learning capacities are triggered.
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