"grammar teaching" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to the act or process of teaching grammar rules and principles. Example: The school has implemented a new program for grammar teaching, which has significantly improved students' writing skills.
Thus, there is an increasing need to investigate how prospective English language teachers perceive and practise grammar teaching.
And now it is clear that this grammar teaching works.
But in any case, it has been found that there is no difference in effectiveness between integrating grammar teaching into tasks and separating grammar teaching from tasks.
An official report on grammar teaching, published this year, reveals that such thinking was based on remarkably shaky evidence.
Much of the thinking leading to strictures against grammar teaching has taken place in countries where English is the predominant language: a second language situation.
Some of the writers opposing explicit grammar teaching have confused a target end-state (near-native production) with how the learner reaches the target.
It's about the sum of the grammar taught to my unfortunate generation, educated in the 1970s and 1980s, who otherwise had no English language tuition.
How things have to improve was made clear: we need to embrace grammar, teach it in context and uphold its importance within the education system.
In school, I'd spent two years studying the language, but the curriculum had focussed on grammar, taught through modified excerpts of nineteenth-century literature.
Grammars teach foreign tongues, and the advantage of Bittman's approach is that it can teach you how to cook.
Want to introduce grammar while teaching a certain subject?
