Unit 9 Teaching Grammar

Teaching aims:

1. Let the students understand the role of grammar in language learning.

2. Make the students know the knowledge of Grammar presentation

3.Let the students comprehend what is practice and ways to practice.

Teaching focus and difficult points:

1. The knowledge of grammar presentation

2. The understanding of ways to practice

3. How to use the knowledge mentioned above correctly.

Teaching procedures:

Step1: Lead-in

The teacher: Good moring, everyone .

The students: Good moring ,Miss wang.

The teacher:We all know that grammar plays an important part in language learning, rignt?

The students: Yes.

The teacher:Ok, today we are going to learning something about grammar. look at our computer please,we are going to learn it from these aspects: 1.The role of grammar in language learning 2.Grammar presentation

3.Grammar practice

Step2:The role of grammar in language learning

(1) discuss the five different views about the role of grammar in language learning, ask some students choose which one he/she prefers.

(2) Introduce some professional views

Step3: Grammar presentation

(1)Introduce three ways of presenting grammar in the classroom:

The deductive method the inductive method and the guided discovery method .

Step4: teach the three methods in details.

.The deductive method

(1)What is deduction: reasoning from general principles to a particular case

(2)The deductive method relies on reasoning, analysing and comparing.

(3)An example noticed;

2.The inductive method

(1)Induction: method of logical reasoning which obtains or discovers general laws from particular facts or examples 归纳法

(2)The teacher provides authentic language data and induces the learners to realise grammar rules without any form of explicit explanation. It is believed that the rules will become evident if students are given enough appropriate examples.

(3)instance-based: T may elicit the grammar rule from students based on sufficient instances/examples.

3.The guided discovery method

(1) introduce the different aspects from the inductive method

(2) Two key theoretical issues related to the method

(3) Pennington’s (2002) 4C approach to grammar teaching

Step5: grammar practice

(1) what is practice

(2)Two categories of practice

Step5: Activity: Task 4 p.110

Discuss in pairs or in groups the advantages and disadvantages of mechanical practice

Step6：Conclusion

1. The role of grammar in language learning: Generally speaking, Chinese EFL learners need a certain degree of mastery of English grammar. However, it should be noted that learning grammar itself is not the ultimate goal of learning English.

2. 2.Three ways of presenting/ teaching grammar: the deductive method, the inductive method, and the guided discovery method. Each has merits and drawbacks. The best way is to vary methods in different situations.

3.Ur (1996) suggests that a good presentation of grammar should include both oral and written and both form and meaning. Plenty of contextualised examples are necessary; visual materials are helpful; use of complex terminology should be avoided for young learners; inductive and discovery method should be used for those structures that can be easily perceived by the learners; for complex structures it is better to teach the rule explicitly and deductively.

4.Mechanical practice and meaningful practice of grammar have both advantages and disadvantages. Two types of practice can be combined. Using prompts (pictures, mimes, tables, charts, key words, created situations) has proved to be an effective way of grammar practice.