A Framework for Teaching Grammar

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A Framework for Teaching Grammar

• Presentation
• To perceive form and meaning
• To take into short-term memory
• Isolation and explanation
• To understand the rules for grammar items
• What items sound and look like
• What they mean
• How they function

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Teaching Grammar...

• Practice
• To transfer from short-term to long-term memory
• Practice the written and spoken forms discrete
  items
• Practice forms with meaning involved
• Production of meanings with attention to
  structure use
• Test
• To provide feedback

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Teaching Grammar... Factors that contribute to
successful practice

• Pre-learning
• Volume and repetition
• Success-orientation

• Heterogeneity
• Teacher assistance
• Interest