In honor of National Grammar Day, and because of some of the thoughts that I’ve been posting on recently, I thought I’d post on how I approach teaching grammar.
First of all, we need to view grammar not as a set of rules that must be memorized, nor as something that stands outside of other aspects of language. Grammar has to be taught in some kind of communicative context. Having students fill out worksheets where they put the verb in past simple doesn’t help them to use the language. And it’s …Continue