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av ANGEL LEONARDO ARMIJOS PIEDRA 3 år siden

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WHAT IS LANGUAGE

Language is a system of words and expressions used by a large group of people. Different types of grammar play crucial roles in understanding and using language correctly. Teaching grammar is typically found in classrooms and focuses on instructing learners on the proper use of grammatical rules, often comparing the target language with the learner'

WHAT IS LANGUAGE

WHAT IS LANGUAGE

Prescriptive grammar.

It is like the regulation of how your grammar should be.
It changes with the time because language is dynamic.
It was taught to the children that belonged to the upper class, they were taught how to write and speak properly.
Prescriptive grammar is the result of the thoughts of grammarians when they realized that not all the grammars are the same.
Prescriptive grammar provides the rules that need to be follow for good grammar.
This kind of grammar prescribes instead of describing.

Descriptive grammar.

Description of language made by the grammarians.
A speaker can realize that his mental grammar is good when he notices that a sentence is well formed or grammatically correct.
It does not teach the rules neither how to speak, it just describes the knowledge of the speakers.
It also describes the rules that the speakers need to internalize.

Teaching grammars.

This grammar is the one we can find in the classrooms of foreign language.
It does not try to change rules or its use.
This is formal grammar teach in formal instruction.
The emphasis is placed on the grammar that is different from their native language, words, and pronunciations.
Teaching grammars works better in adults because they compare the target language with their native language
Teaching grammar can be compared to prescriptive grammar because both are meant to tell people the correct use of grammatical rules.
Parallel words with the native language of the learner.

Words and expressions used and understood by a large group of people the

Universal grammar

All languages have rules, and the universal grammar is part of them all.
Noam Chomsky refers that there is a universal grammar which is part of the biologically endowed human language faculty.
Verbs, nouns and rules are well known by the learner that he has to follow.
Unconsciously when a learner begins to learn a language he knows that the target language has its own set of sounds, alphabet, letter, words, sentences, phrases.