Since the introduction of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), many textbooks have been written to incorporate communicative activities, authentic materials and personalized contexts. However, where the teaching and learning of grammar is concerned, most textbooks do not reflect CLT principles. As demonstrated in this paper, grammar activities in some Malaysian and Taiwanese textbooks retain ...

Role-plays provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate how to use English in real life situations and make them focus more on communication than on grammar. Oral presentations like conversations are a great way for students to practice their English skills. Therefore, this paper makes an attempt to investigate whether teaching conversation through role play affects the students’ speaki...

Abstract Knowledge about Language (KaL) is an important part of L1 language education around the world. A controversial KaL grammatical or syntactic knowledge, i.e., knowledge form, meaning and use sentences phrases. In current international discourse on grammar teaching, principally motivated by desire to enhance students’ literacy development, befitting communicative turn in mother tongue fol...

The article is devoted to the role of grammar in an ESP class – students who don’t specialize English and need primarily for professional reading. authors argue that most important language skill special purposes framework tertiary education academic reading, which serves as a basis developing speaking writing skills. Teaching reading impossible without formal systematic study grammar. principa...

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language teacher assessment, like many aspects of second language teacher education, is changing. to understand factors that are driving the change, such as work of teaching generally, language teaching in particular, and the role of teachers’ knowledge in teaching, this study examined language teacher assessment schemes across the globe. the aim was to arrive at a set of shared beliefs, attitu...

English has become one of the compulsory subjects for students in China. As a foreign language, especially whose grammatical structure is, some sense, diverse from learners’ mother tongue, it requires teachers to research proper methods present syntactic patterns students’ sake. When turn linguistics, there are two well-known theories about syntax different points perspective. They transformati...

This article briefly explores the twelve principles of language teaching and learning formulated by H. Douglas Brown and also the underlying principles of some of the earlier grammar-based methods to calculate how consistent these principles are with those of Brown’s. The grammarbased approaches chosen for evaluation are the Grammar Translation Method, the Direct Method, the Audiolingual Method...

This paper presents a study about the role of grammar in on-line interactions conducted in Portuguese and in English, between Brazilian and English-speaking interactants, with the aim of teaching Portuguese as a foreign language (PFL). The interactions occurred by means of chat and the MSN Messenger, and generated audio and video data for language analysis. Grammar is dealt with from two perspe...