Disadvantages Of Second Language Grammar

Over the centuries, second language educators have alternated between favouring teaching approaches which focus on having students analyses language in order to learn it and those encourage students’ using language in order to acquire it According to Hedge recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the role of grammar in English language teaching. That is not to say that, for many teachers, grammar has ever taken anything other than a central role in their classroom methodology. However, the 1980s experienced an anti-grammar movement, perhaps influenced primarily by Krashen’s idea that grammar can be acquired naturally from meaningful input and opportunities to interact in the classroom; in other words, that grammatical competence can develop in a fluency-oriented environment without conscious focus on language forms .Larsen-Freeman stated: “It is true that some learners acquire second language grammar naturally without instruction. For example, there are immigrants to the United States who acquire proficiency in English on their own. However, this is not true for all learners”. She also added that learning particular grammatical distinction requires a great deal of time even for the most skilled learners. According to Richards , the basic assumption of such an approach is that“’ communicative’ classrooms provide a better environment for second-language acquisition than classrooms dominated by formal instruction.”Larsen-Freeman claims that appropriate grammar