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Essay On Teaching Grammar

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This critical review of the presentation “Teaching Grammar” aims to analyse the effectiveness of this activity in teaching grammar to enhance communicative competence.
Grammar is defined as a set of rules that describe how words and groups of words can be arranged to form sentences in a particular language (Cowan, 2008). Based on this definition, grammar can also be considered the foundation of a language. Because grammar plays such a vital role as the basis of a language, it is right to assume that grammatical competence is a part of communicative competence (Lock, 1996). Hence, grammar is an essential aspect in enhancing communicative competence.
The main purpose of this activity is to enhance grammatical competence with regards to different types of tenses, and to enhance communication skills by enabling students to speak English accurately using the correct tenses. This activity targets Lower Secondary students from Form 1 to Form 3, who have an intermediate level of English proficiency and may be lacking in structural competency and grammatical awareness. It also applies a deductive teaching approach, where grammatical rules related to tenses are taught to the students before the activity starts. The teacher plays three roles in three …show more content…

This is a refreshing change because in the Malaysian classroom, teachers tend to place more emphasis on the importance of grammar in writing and reading. While this may help students in answering exam questions and writing essays, students tend to neglect the application of grammar in daily communication, which causes them to become less proficient in using proper grammar on a communicative basis. Thus, by focusing on the application of grammar to enhance communicative competence, it emphasises on the importance of proper grammar in

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