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WorksheetsWhy teach grammar?
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
"Is the memorization of individual items such as words and phrases."
The fossilisation argument.
The discrete item argument.
The sentence-machine argument.
"It is possible to get a lot of communicative mileage out of simply stringing words and phrases together."
The fine-tuning argument.
The advance-organiser argument.
The discrete item argument.
"It is possible for highly motivated learners with a particular aptitude for languages to achieve amazing levels of proficiency without any formal study. But more often 'pick it up as you go along' learners reach a language plateau beyond which it is very difficult to progress."
The fossilisation argument.
The advance-organiseI' argument.
The ruie-of-law argument.
"...sees the role of education as the transfer of a body of knowledge (typically in the form of facts and rules) from those that have the knowledge to those that do not."
The fine-tuning argument.
The sentence-machine argument.
The ruie-of-law argument.
"...many learners come to language classes with fairly fixed expectations as to what they will do there."
The learner expectations argument.
The fine-tuning argument.
The fossilisation argument.
"I know what is involved in riding a bike: keeping your balance, pedalling, steering by means of the handlebars and so on. This does not mean to say that I know how to ride a bike."
The natural order argument.
The learner expectations argument.
The knowledge-how argument.
"It is one thing to know that Do you drink? Is a present simple question. It is another thing to know that it can function as an offer."
The acquisition argument.
The natural order argument.
The communication argument.
"The fact that we all learned our first language without being taught grammar rules has not escaped theorists. If it works, for the why shouldn't it work for the second?"
The communication argument.
The acquisition argument.
The learner expectations argument.
"Humans are ‘hard-wired’ to learn languages: that is, there are universal principles of grammar that we are born with."
The learner expectations argument.
The acquisition argument.
The natural order argument.
"There are many others who may already have had years of grammar study at school and are urgently in need of a chance to put this knowledge to work."
The acquisition argument.
The learner expectations argument.
The knowledge-how argument.
Grammar and Methods.
Which you consider are the teaching methods?
Direct Method.
Grammar-Translation/ The Direct Method/ Audiolingualism/
Grammar- Translation/ Natural argument.
Which you consider are the basic principles for grammar teaching?
The E-factor.
The learner expectations/ The natural order.
The E-Factor/ The A-Factor.
