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Teaching Grammar - Coggle Diagram
Teaching Grammar
Step
- Practice
- students internalize what they are learning and develop proficiency
- guide practice with structures and support to help produce target language
- goal to provide many opportunities to try out new language
- prepares for real communication
- Apply
- use language in a personalized way
- use language in realistic context
- connect language to students' lives
- encourage students to communicate with each other
- Present
- introduce new language structure
- use visuals, realia, G.O, song, story
- provide meaningful listening and reading input
goal to help students gain comprehension of new language
- Extend
- additional communicative activities for practice, application, enrichment
- stretches students' abilities to communicate in real-world situations
- Warm Up
- prepare students for lesson
- create interest and excitement about topic
- prepare students for new language input
- activate prior knowledge
- review known language (previous lesson)
- Wrap Up
- conclude lesson with a final activity
- ex: lesson review, game, or comprehension check
- students should leave class knowing they have learned something
The approach
Learning grammar is a messy process requiring the teacher to provide lots of meaningful practice, recycling and guidance in attending to language form.
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'Grammartical explanation' not useful, student will be bored
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Should be learning centred (active, interactive, meaningful)
Tips
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use natural, real world contexts
Authentic Oral text types
(songs, chants, story telling, plays)
Authentic Written text types
(stories, poems, emails, ads)
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How to plan lessons
Grammar Based Lesson
L.O: to learn a grammar point
- present grammar point (in L1)
- do grammar exercises
- practice grammar in context
Contextualized Language Lesson
L.O: to use language communicatively
- present language in context
- practice language in context
- produce language in context