This document discusses different aspects of teaching grammar: what grammar is, why we teach it, when to teach it, and how to teach it. Regarding what grammar is, it describes both traditional and functional grammar. For why we teach grammar, it provides historical context as well as current reasons related to language use. When to teach grammar depends on curriculum and student needs. How to teach grammar discusses both grammar translation and communicative approaches, as well as whether grammar is best taught implicitly or explicitly.

1. Your Ideas about Grammar
1. What is grammar?
2. Why to teach grammar?
3. When to teach grammar?
4. How to teach grammar?

2. What is grammar?
• Traditional grammar:
Part of speech(word category, structures)
Prescriptive(based on rules of usage)

3. •Functional Grammar:
Focused on how word patterns make meaning
Based on language use(Pragmatics)
Descriptive (language as text/discourse)

4. Why to teach grammar?
• Historically, grammar school was to teach
classical languages(Latin-written language,
Greek, etc), which select students
academically.
• Currently for the students to use in language
construction(communication, academic
writing)

5. When to teach grammar?
• Teacher chooses according to the curriculum
of grammar course
• Teach at the point of need(student-centered,
task-based, activity-lead)

6. How to teach grammar?
• Grammar-translation
separately
• Communicative approach
integratedly(grammar in context with other
skills)
Implicitly & Explicitly

7. How to teach grammar?

10. Process Analyse: Implicit or Explicit?
Step 1: Give students examples of the grammar
concept you are about to cover. ()
Step 2: Provide the rules. ()
Step 3: Give some more examples. ()
Step 4: Have Ss come up with their own
examples through doing the assignments.()
Step 5: Correction and explanation based on the
assignments.()

11. Implicit VS Explicit
Which is a better way?

12. Conclusions:

13. References:
• Kolln, M., Hancock, C. (2005). The story of English
grammar in United States schools. English Teaching:
Practice and Critique, 4, 11-31. Retrieved from
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
• How to Teach Grammar in High School | eHow.com
http://www.ehow.com/how_8030349_teach-
grammar-high-school.html#ixzz23R4gIt00
• http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/
• http://www.eslbase.com/articles/grammar-
implicit-explicit

14. Thank you!