Week 1 Grammar and Grammar Instruction: Theory and Practice Theo

Children see the foreign language 'from the inside' and try to find meaning in how the language is used in action, in interaction, and with intention, rather than 'from the outside as a system and form.

"Learning grammar is a messy process requiring the teacher to provide lots of meaningful practice, recycling, and guidance in attending to language form."

"Learning grammar is a messy process requiring the teacher to provide lots of meaningful practice, recycling, and guidance in NOT attending to language form."

Children see the foreign language 'from the inside' and NOT try to find meaning in how the language is used in action, in interaction, and with intention, BUT 'from the outside as a system and form.

Make it meaningful!

Link and recycle!

Make it fun!

all of the above

using previous K,

Teaching Grammar YL

Teaching Grammar speaking

Teaching Grammar L2

Teaching Grammar Rationale

Communicative competence:

Communicative fluency:

Grammatical Range:

Grammatical Competence:

The ability to express oneself easily and articulately both orally and in writing.

Being able to use a variety of sentence structurers, tenses, and other items to convey meaning.

The ability to recognize lexical, morphological, syntactical, and phonological features of a language and use these features effectively to interpret, encode, and decode words and sentences.

The ability to make judgements about the acceptability and appropriateness of an utterance with specific reference to grammatical notions (meaning and form).

Task-based + Focus on form

Practice-based instruction

Task-based + Consciousness-raising

all of the above

The Given-to-New Principle

The Awareness Principle

The Real-Operating Conditions principle

1. a)  Recycling

2. b)  Reusing

2. c)  Reducing

d)  Re-structuring

the ability to use correct and precise grammar with control. Mistakes that impact communication are considered severe mistakes

Being able to use a variety of sentence structurers, tenses, and other items to convey meaning.

The ability to recognize lexical, morphological, syntactical, and phonological features of a language and use these features effectively to interpret, encode, and decode words and sentences.

The ability to express oneself easily and articulately both orally and in writing

to provide lots of meaningful practice, reusing, and guidance in attending to language form.

to provide lots of meaningful practice, recycling, and guidance in attending to language form.

to provide lots of meaningful practice,reinforcementt, and guidance in attending to language form.

to provide lots of meaningful practice, dancing, and guidance in attending to language form.