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Carrera en Línea Pedagogia de los Idiomas. (2021). What is Language?. Ecuador: Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE
Raza, A.. (July 17, 2014). Grammar and its types. . SlideShare Recuperado de https://www.slideshare.net/AsifAliRaza/grammar-and-its-types
What is Grammar?
Types of Speeches
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions
Interjections
Conjuctions
Pronouns
Nouns
Verbs
Usually the grammar intended as an aid to the learning of that language.
The systematic study and description of a language, dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language.
Prescriptive Grammar
For Example
In American English the correct
form of 2nd person plural is you.
Attempts to conserve
linguistic patterns
Passes value judgments
“right” and “wrong”
Molds language to ideal usage
Arbitrary rules derived primarily
from written language
Written language
It refers to a set of forms, which
allow us to know how sentences
should or should not be formed.
Universal Grammar
A child needs to observe the set of rules that other children use to understand and produce their mother tongue
A baby is born with his innate ability to learn a language
Every child is born with the tools to learn any language.
Children are born with an innate device for acquiring language.
Generalities
It is a pattern that all languages follow and is part of a child's innate ability to learn a language.
Teaching Grammars
Process in 3 Steps
Mechanical drills
Imitation, substitution, repetition
Meaningful drills
Make sentences, rewrite and translate sentences
Communicative drills
Use the structure flexibly
Explanation
Inductive method
Learners are encourage to
formulate rules for themselves.
Deductive method
Learners are taught the rules and
features of the target language
Presentation
Live-action, visual, printed,
verbal, audio, or animated.
Grammar is an important
part of language learning.
It uses in order for students can
spontaneously produce language
Descriptive Grammar
Practice
On the contrary, when a sentence is poorly structured, it means that it differs from the grammar rules
When a speaker recognizes that a sentence is well structured, it means that it conforms to the mental grammar rule.
Characteristics
They clearly and effectively describe a language, as well as its grammar rules.
Languageists describe the rules of the language that their speakers know and keep in mind.
Definition
It is the description that linguists or grammarians make about a language.
