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The Communicative Function of Grammar :explode: - Coggle Diagram
The Communicative Function of Grammar
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Context
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Starting lessons or activities with context can prime to students to understand the communicative purpose of the grammar model
How to use context with students
Directly address the context of the situation with students
EX: Reading a passage where the reader has to give advice to another person: "If I were you……"
Work on grammar rules and then move on to context
Important because isolated examples given to students do not capture the whole of communication
Communicative Grammar Lesson
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Not a simple, Practice, Present, Produce
Takes it a step further by having students use their newly acquired grammar topic to communicate with one another
Target grammar through communicative activities and tasks
Games, role-playing, discussion activities
Can also be done through writing
Teaching Functional Language
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MFP (Meaning, Form, Pronunciation)
Meaning
Different meanings with the same form and vice versa
Form
Figure out forms that come after the functional exponent (pieces of language that perform something)
"Would you like to..." "I would love to.."
Pronunciation
Stressing certain words in the sentence
So How Do We Approach Grammar???
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Grammar taught separately from communication
Grammar Translation Model teaches grammar separately from how language is used in social situation
Receptive but not productive learning
This is not very helpful
Reframe our understanding of grammar
How do we use the grammar to communicate our ideas?
Does not throw grammar to the side, but embraces it in a way that promotes communication