The issue of the approach to grammar teaching in schools has been in question for many years. The level of academic writing in universities has proven to be far below adequate and the question that arises is who or what is to blame. Are the teachers responsible due to a lack of knowledge and training, or would one rather look at the specific approach implemented at this time? Is it necessary to teach grammar in schools at all? I believe that it is most definitely necessary to teach grammar to achieve a high level of English competence, especially for academic purposes, but that it is must be taught in a specific manner to avoid influencing the affective filters of the learners negatively. In this essay, I will discuss the necessity of teaching …show more content…
“you know”), backchannels (e.g. “Oh really?”) and incomplete sentences (Cutting, 2015: 21). ‘Function’ can be considered to be of greater importance during speech than form (Cutting, 2015, 3) and therefore the communicative approach meets the needs of discourse competence, as the classroom input is satisfactory. This is said despite the possibility of negative input, because spoken discourse always includes some ‘negative’ input because it is fluid, as stated above. The same could be said for strategic competence and socio-linguistic competence that also forms a part of the communicative approach (Van der Walt, 2009: 41-43), because the input creates the environment for the development of these strategies, while the interaction facilitates the socio-linguistic competence. In terms of grammar competence, it is necessary to support and adapt the communicative approach through the intertwining of other complimenting …show more content…
Grammar teaching is of utmost importance in schools and can be done efficiently by adapting the approaches already listed in the CAPS document through creativity and innovation from the teacher’s side. According to Krahnke (cited by Terrell, 1991), “grammar has a newly defined but useful role to play in language teaching” and I fully agree. After the traditional method of grammar teaching proved to be ineffective and now natural acquisition proving the same, we as teachers have the responsibility and the new knowledge to employing grammar in its new role and providing the learners with the ability to be competent in every aspect of
Final Essay Exam on True Notebooks This essay focuses upon what Mark gains from the class; however inside out writers was designed for the juvenile inmates. I believe Mark gains a lot from the inside out writing class; mark gets to know each student, understands each student, and becomes really good friends with them. Mark learns how to communicate and understand these kids from juvenile hall.
Rhetorical Analysis of "How to Read and Write" (Frederick Douglass) During an era of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, and no hopes of abolition, Frederick Douglass invites his audience into a world where slavery enters the kindest of souls, and purifies the soul to have nothing but hatred and anger. In the empowering narrative, “Learning to Read and Write”, Douglass enunciates the cruelty of slavery and its pervasive impacts, with the help of Douglass’ vast journey to ultimately gain his thinking skills through reading and writing. Douglass expresses these actions with elaborate metaphors and immaculate details that keeps the audience on their toes to witness what happens next. Growing up as a slave, Douglass became curious about the art of reading
Paul Hunter, a foreign correspondent with CBC’s The National made several key points on ethical and legal challenges that we may face throughout our journalism careers. The first key point was regarding the way we approach subjects. About a week into his job at CBC, Hunter was faced with the task of calling a family that had been involved in a bus crash, and exploiting their story for television ratings.
Many share the misconception that racism is a problem of the past. To them, prejudice has entirely ceased to exist, and today, humanity bears witness to a nondiscriminatory world. The flippant citing of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream,” perhaps even validates this new, egalitarian society emerging; however, such a society is merely an illusion. In fact, a minor offense as simple as citing “I Have a Dream” may not seem a big deal; however, many anthropologists contend that the telltale signs of institutionalized racism are present in these seemingly innocent actions. Furthermore, scholars Elizabeth Barnert and Terry Jones examine the state of institutionalized racism in their respective articles.
As a person achieves great success in his education career, the author is considered to be knowledgeable for the audience to trust his opinion. When reading his essay, readers can see the value, benefits, and importance of education
Speeches are used to commemorate points of history, and inform the general public of the product of their history but what makes a speech so impacting on it’s audience? Rhetorical devices give speeches and works of literature a way that can convey feelings or ideas to a viewer. When addressing during times of war or chaos, people such as Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill used these terms to better connect with their audience. Without these tools of the english language, dialogue and literature would be all the more dull and unappealing. However, with these useful instruments, writers and speakers can better communicate through some of the many rhetorical devices.
This article was found using a search through a search on EBSCOhost and the intended audience is classroom teachers and speech-language pathologists. Its intent is to help structure a collaborative classroom environment between classroom teachers and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) including ideas on how to structure communication between classroom teachers and SLPs to increase student performance. The ideas are logical and the article acknowledges many limitations and constraints for collaboration between teachers and SLPs while reminding the reader of the importance and gains that can be made through a partnership. In a school building, the SLP is a valuable resource which can be overlooked. In my building, we have pull-out speech services
Past leaders such as Andrew Jackson, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Marc Antony are evidence that society does not reward morality and good character in leadership. Society is drawn to leaders that have good rhetoric, propaganda, and charismatic personalities, and society supports them despite their immorality. Society is concerned about stability more than the morality of their leaders and will support immoral leaders in times of crisis to provide stability. In history there have been multiple leaders that have used rhetoric, propaganda and charismatic personalities to gain power, despite their morals.
An important discourse community that was a part of my life was my volleyball team during my four years of high school. I started playing my first year going into high school and continued until I graduated. Until now I wasn’t even aware that would even be considered a discourse community, but it fits all of the qualifications of Swales’ definition of a discourse community. Goals
Creations, like most things in life, are improvable. Ideas and theories are always evolving into different ideas or more sophisticated ones. Discourse communities is a term that has been debated over the years. Three of those debaters are James Paul Gee, James P. Porter, and John Swales. In this essay I will analyze what each of these writers see as the definition of a discourse community while comparing specific points that each of them have regarding their personal view on the subject.
Persuasion makes it’s way into almost every communication event I can think of. Either I’m trying to persuade someone or they are trying to persuade me. My dad was a connoisseur in the art of rhetoric. I observed him manipulate the english language to his benefit on many occasions.
USE OF DELIBERATIVE AND EPIDEICTIC RHETORIC IN CRISIS RHETORIC In his article, Bonnie J Dow does well to describe the role of deliberative and epideictic rhetoric in speeches delivered by presidents (President Reagan in his case). According to Dow, the two types of rhetoric are dependent on the situation or type of crisis which is usually determined by what or who causes it- “In this essay I attempt to describe the different functions performed by instances of crisis rhetoric that are products of different situations.” While Dow’s article holds water for most of the speeches delivered through time, for this concept, I believe that in a crisis speech, both epideictic and deliberative rhetoric can be used in such a manner that they complement each other to deliver an effective speech at a troubling time. As such, this short article Presidents George Bush’s address to a joint session of congress on the 9/11 attacks that left Americans terrified to the marrow sparking a crisis.
Every day humans encounter rhetorical situations, yet hardly ever is a heated conversation or debate though of this way. Rhetoric, which is the art of conversation has been used for thousands of years across the world. Rhetorical situations constitute of four elements, the exigence, rhetor, audience, and constraints. All of these are equally the most important elements, because without each other the conversation would make no sense. The action or statement that sparks a discourse, or the exigence is one of the four constituents of a rhetorical analysis.
We had many class discussions that brought on a few arguments, however I was so interested to hear everyone’s ideas on grammar. My Pedagogical Grammar class helped me to see my views on grammar and how I wanted to teach my students. While the traditional method of teaching grammar is important,
Education is necessary for all students. It is a tool which can be used to enhance one's learning and to provide students with experiences inside the classroom to prepare them for later in their life. Teachers are an indispensable figure in the classroom and are called as leaders of the next generation. Everything done in the classroom helps develop children into the citizens they will become. It is essential to understand that students have difference in need, ability, and success rate, but they are all special in their own way.