"grammar instruction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the teaching or instruction of the rules and principles of grammar. Example: The English teacher emphasized the importance of grammar instruction in improving students' writing skills.
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Grammar instruction, albeit rife with controversy, has been a matter of emphasis in the language classroom.
First, explicit grammar instruction has potentially raised the participants' awareness of grammar.
With regard to the type of grammar instruction, they seem to favor the implicit instruction over the explicit one.
Item (1) of the questionnaire asked the students about their general perceptions of grammar instruction in writing classes.
As a result of too much emphasis on grammar, many students have also been turned off explicit grammar instruction.
In addition, while most empirical studies investigating the positive influence of teaching skills on learners tend to examine skills such as form-focused instruction in grammar teaching (Ellis, 2002) or tasks in the L2 classroom (Ellis, 2003), TLA itself as a mechanism for enhancing learning outcomes remains relatively unexplored.
The reforms set detailed instructions about learning grammar, including teaching the use of speech marks and possessive pronouns by the end of year 4 of primary school, relative clauses by the end of year 5 and the use of the subjunctive by the end of year 6.
On a negative note, the textbooks were criticized for a lack of explicit attention to grammar and vocabulary instruction.
Fourth, integrating grammar and pragmatic instruction has potentially fostered each participant's overall communicative competence (in which his/her grammatical competence is subsumed).
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