MAXIMIZING GRAMMAR SCORE FOR SMA STUDENTS

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MAXIMIZINGGRAMMAR SCOREFOR SMA STUDENTS

• BY
• NIKMAH NURBAITY
• Baity1968_at_yahoo.com

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Grammar?????Some wrong opinions

• It is a set of rules to remember
• Meaning is not important at all
• It is just formula
• It is the most difficult part of English
• It is not important in speaking

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Some facts and questions about grammar teaching

• Does grammar contribute a lot to the students
  score?
• Is it the most favorite part most teachers like
  doing in the class?
• Is it the only test given to the students?
• Is it the easy and accurate measurement to
  measure students competence?

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Teaching Grammar?

• Start with interesting activity
• Give meaningful understanding in explaining
• Emphasize the use and form
• Give special characteristic ( clue ) of using the
  target grammar
• Give more examples ( in CTL )
• Let the students experience constructing
• their own sentences using the target grammar

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• Give more chances to experience the productive
  skill ( joint and independent construction )
• Give the real examples of various kinds of test
  directly after finishing one target
• Give more chances to try the various kinds of
  test ( daily, midterm, semester, national exam,
  UMPTN, TOEIC, TOEFL )
• Let the students experience doing the various
  levels of difficulty

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Grammar to be mastered in SMA

• 1.Tenses
• 2.Passive
• 3.Conditional sentences
• 4.Reported speech
• 5.Subjunctive
• 6.Causative
• 7. Modal

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• 8. adjective clause
• 9. noun clause
• 10.adverbial clause
• 11. noun
• 12. verb
• 13. preposition
• 14. conjunction

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• 15. pronoun
• 16. elliptic
• 17. question tag
• 18. preference
• 19.adjective order
• 20. wh question
• 21. concord

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• 22.Gerund
• 23.Present participle
• 24. Past participle
• 25. Part of speech

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Grammar in SKL 2006

• 1. present perfect continuous tense
• 2. future perfect tense
• 3. passive
• 4. causative have and get
• 5. subjunctive
• 6. should have verb III

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Some difficulties faced by students

• To differenciate active and passive in various
  tenses , for example
• Is discussing has been
  discussed
• Is discussed has been
  discussing
• Has discussed had discussed
• Is being discussed will have
  discussed
• Was discussed was being
  discussed
• Will be discussing had been
  discussing
• Will be discussed had been
  discussed
• Discusses discussed
• Will discussed

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• Note for students
• to be verb ing me
• to be verb III di
• master the time signals
• Other problems with have in causative
• Have to repair it had repaired it
• Had to repair it have been repaired
• Have it repaired have a lot of things

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Subjunctive and conditional

• School exercises find the facts
• National exam find the meaning
• students are trapped in grammar rules ,do not
  realize the meaning

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• Conjunction
• it is difficult for students to see the
  relation between the main clause and the
  subordinate clause
• cant get the whole understanding of the
  sentence for example
• his father objection, the boy left for
  Jakarta to get a job.

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• Common errors
• - students cant identify what is actually
• tested .
• - students can not recognize the clue
• for example
• Finally he succedded in .his uncle address.

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• And there are still a lot of common errors that
  the students make.
• It is the teachers challenge to know what are
  those common errors then how to help the students
  to overcome .
• thank you

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