GRAMMAR
Is a description of the regularities in a language
The case for grammar
Seven arguments for putting grammar in the foreground in second language.
The sentence-machine argument
The fine-tuning argument
The fossilisation argument
The advance-organiser argument
The discrete item argument
The rule-of-law argument
The learner expectation argument
The case against grammar
Just as arguments have been marshalled in favor of grammar teaching, likewise six main cases have been made against.
The knowledge-how argument
The communication argument
The acquisition argument
The natural order argument
The lexical chunks argument
The learner expectation argument
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Is primarity in the discourse of speech community.
To prescribe: what is and what is not correct.
The intuitive language rules or patterns fluent read.
Structures of sentences, including the words and phrases in them.
A specific grammatical form has the potential to convey a variety of notions.
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It is determined by context or situations.
Adjective, adverbs, conjunctions, determiners, noun, pronouns, prepositions, verbs are parts of grammar.
It contains three dimensions: form, meaning, use.
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It is a way that accounts for both the structure of the target language and its a communicative use.
It has 3 levels:
The subsentential level or morphological level.
The sentential or syntactic level
The supresential or discurse level.
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