Teaching Grammar - Topic 1

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Teaching Grammar - Topic 1

The place of grammar in the primary ESL classroom

KSSR

Build proficiency in the language

KBSR

To equip students with English language both in speaking and writing.

fluency versus accuracy

Accuracy

focus on language

Fluency

practice what they already know

limit teacher-talk

impose no rules

let students be creative

keep students at own level of vocabulary and grammar

Grammar to young learners

Lesson should be:

Recap

use simple words

motivating and interesting

easy to understand

Young Learners

ego to ask question

pretend to understand

short term concentration on one thing

easily bored

learn through senses

love to be praised

Meaning and definition of grammar

A set of rules and examples dealing with the syntax and word structures (morphology) of a language.

A system of language