Five Steps to Teaching Grammar

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Five Steps to Teaching Grammar

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5 Steps to Teaching Grammar

• No matter what the key learning points are, an
  effective grammar mini-lesson plan is likely to
  have at least five (5) steps or stages
• Presentation with Recognition
• Demonstrating Comprehension
• Grammar Explanation
• Practice Exercises
• Communicative Expression

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Presentation with Recognition

• Presentation is a context that offers plenty of
  examples. It can be live-action, visual, printed,
  verbal, audio, animated, or a combination of
  several forms.
• For instance, heres a strip story with many
  instances of third person singular verbs in
  present statements (from WL-E 3G Chapter 4 /
  Work, Part One, p. 58). This particular
  presentation consists of 8 frames (panels) on the
  subject of Job Searches. The captions tell the
  story of Helenas Uncle Stephen, who's lost his
  job and tries to cope with the situation

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Demonstrating Comprehension

• Comprehension comes next. It can be checked in
  many different, natural, direct ways. For
  instance, an instructor, helper, or self-teacher
  can use familiar grammar and vocabulary to ask
  comprehension questions about presented material.
  
• For beginners, perhaps the first of these should
  elicit yes/no or one-word answers (Examples Does
  Stephen have a job now? No.. Yes or No He
  tries to get unemployment benefits, but cant.
  Yes. Who does he ask for help? His union
  rep.). Later, the questions could evoke the
  targeted grammar, in this case third-person
  singular verbs.

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Grammar Explanation

• Explanation of grammar points may or may not be
  necessary or helpful, depending on participants
  learning styles. It can come in various forms,
  the simplest of which is a Grammar Box, perhaps
  with Review, titles like Statements with Third
  Person Singular Verbs, labeled sentence
  elements, and aligned vocabulary as examples.
• This typical visual is from WL-E 3G Chapter 4 /
  Work, Part One, p. 59. It uses parts of sentence
  examples from the preceding presentation,
  identifying their functions by their placement
  in a chart.

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Practice Exercises

• Practice is usually in exercises using an English
  grammar workbook, which proceeds from simplistic
  or automatic (to build confidence) to more
  challenging. In the latter, exercise-doers must
  consider more factors in completing each item.
• Even so, if someone is actually acquiring a
  grammar pattern or point rather than guessing
  thoughtlessly, the answers should come quickly,
  with little effort, becoming more and more
  natural. At the same time, learners should
  always stay aware of the meaning of the language
  that they are producing. Here is an example
  exercise

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Communicative Expression

• Communicative Expression occurs through speaking
  and listening, sometimes followed up with writing
  and reading. Such activities require little
  printed material and few aural cues, although
  participants may want to refer to grammar points
  (including those that are not the focus of the
  targeted grammar) and/or collect the words and
  phrases they need.
• In this example (Activity D.), they ask one
  another real questions, for which they need only
  the structures and phrasing offered in the
  Chapter Part. Then they convert those real
  answers into statements that include the targeted
  grammar, practicing it naturally.

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