Help!How do you teach grammar.
Posted: 12 Nov 2013, 14:40
Hi everyone,
I am doing a final project for my master’s degree of TESOL right now. In the project, I need English teachers’ perspectives and opinions about grammar teaching. I really need your guys’ help.
In my opinion, grammar is important but it is hard to keep grammar teaching interesting. My own experience of learning English was not very fun. I remember my English teachers usually explained the grammar rules for us, and then had us do the grammar exercises. Therefore, in my project, I am eager to explore efficient and interesting ways of teaching grammar. In addition, I will be an English teacher soon after I graduate this year. I hope I could provide my students with interesting experiences of learning English but I don’t have much experience. I really need your opinion and suggestion.
Also, in my project, I have tried out the inductive approach. This was actually new to me. I gave students many examples of the target grammar feature of conditional, and guided them to find out the grammar rules without explicit explanation for them. Students’ responses for this approach were mixed. While some of them felt it was interesting, some of them preferred more explicit explanation of grammar rules. Could you also give me some advice about this approach?
I really appreciate it if you could give me your opinion about grammar teaching, and share with me some techniques and activities.
Thank you : )
I am doing a final project for my master’s degree of TESOL right now. In the project, I need English teachers’ perspectives and opinions about grammar teaching. I really need your guys’ help.
In my opinion, grammar is important but it is hard to keep grammar teaching interesting. My own experience of learning English was not very fun. I remember my English teachers usually explained the grammar rules for us, and then had us do the grammar exercises. Therefore, in my project, I am eager to explore efficient and interesting ways of teaching grammar. In addition, I will be an English teacher soon after I graduate this year. I hope I could provide my students with interesting experiences of learning English but I don’t have much experience. I really need your opinion and suggestion.
Also, in my project, I have tried out the inductive approach. This was actually new to me. I gave students many examples of the target grammar feature of conditional, and guided them to find out the grammar rules without explicit explanation for them. Students’ responses for this approach were mixed. While some of them felt it was interesting, some of them preferred more explicit explanation of grammar rules. Could you also give me some advice about this approach?
I really appreciate it if you could give me your opinion about grammar teaching, and share with me some techniques and activities.
Thank you : )