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How to teach grammar in context?

I think that grammar and context are often so closely related that appropriate grammatical choices can only be made with reference to the context and purpose of the communication.

Therefore, I opt for teaching grammar through context because a situational context permits presentation of a wide range of language items. The situation serves as a means of contextualizing the language and this helps clarify its meaning. Thus, we can teach grammar through texts, stories, songs or poems.

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Question added by Souhir Dardouri , Secondary School Outstanding Senior EFL Teacher , Bosten Secondary School, Kelibia, Tunisia
Date Posted: 2016/08/05
Souhir Dardouri
by Souhir Dardouri , Secondary School Outstanding Senior EFL Teacher , Bosten Secondary School, Kelibia, Tunisia

I think that grammar and context are often so closely related that appropriate grammatical choices can only be made with reference to the context and purpose of the communication.

Therefore, I opt for teaching grammar through context because a situational context permits presentation of a wide range of language items. The situation serves as a means of contextualizing the language and this helps clarify its meaning. Thus, we can teach grammar through texts, stories, songs or poems.

Atif Al thaher
by Atif Al thaher , Training / Teaching Specialist , Sahara Net Company

 

Teaching Grammar is one of the difficult tasks that a teacher should choose his wary between them, in which way? Students usually like the shortest way to get them to the objective of the lesson. One way that I suggest is to use a text based task. That can be through teaching the grammatical rules in a piece of reading or a dialogue or such an in advance prepared reading text followed by a task mainly concentrating on finding the grammatical elements to teach and gap filling and drills.    

  

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