In Unit 1, I learned about Grammar and Its key
concepts. When I hear or see the word Grammar immediately comes to my mind thousands of
rules, structures, tenses, parts of speech, etc. But what is grammar? According
to what I have learned, Grammar is the way how we use ,combine,
change and organize parts of speech, words
of groups of words to have a meaning.
I learned some of the key concepts of grammar such as grammatical forms and grammatical structure. We use the term grammatical forms to refer to the way we organize words (subject + verb + object) and grammatical structures is the term we use to refer to the structures such passive voice, contrast clause, present simple, etc. Furthermore, I realized that there are nine parts of speech in English language such nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and exclamations. A part of speech or word clase defines how a word act in a sentence.
I learned some of the key concepts of grammar such as grammatical forms and grammatical structure. We use the term grammatical forms to refer to the way we organize words (subject + verb + object) and grammatical structures is the term we use to refer to the structures such passive voice, contrast clause, present simple, etc. Furthermore, I realized that there are nine parts of speech in English language such nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and exclamations. A part of speech or word clase defines how a word act in a sentence.
Also I differentiated between the terms
prefixes and suffixes both words are part of affixation that mean to add
letters at the end or beginning of a base word to have a different meaning. Prefixes
are letters added at the beginning of a base word (e.g. misunderstand) besides suffixes are letters added at the end
of the word (e.g. useless). Finally,
I analyzed what are the grammatical uses. Those refers to the structure used to
convey a meaning, a meaning that comes from the context of a grammatical use.
To sum up, I think that grammar must be teach
according to students necessities. What I mean with that is to teach the needed
grammar for a certain purpose using simple rules and explanations to make students
understand. Sometimes grammar structures are taugh with out being aware if students could use such structure to covey a message in L2.
For a better explanation watch the video below
For a better explanation watch the video below
References:
Videos
Lily, W., & Colet,
J. (1945). A shorte introduction of grammar,. New York: Scholars'
facsimiles & reprints.
Teaching Grammar
Communicatively [Motion
picture on DVD]. (2012). Cambridge University Press ELT.
I agree with you Cecilia, that we have to teach grammar according to the necessities of our students and also the level that they are, because we can't fill their brains with knowledge that they cannot understand.
ReplyDeleteI like your viewpoints. Grammar is very important not only for teachers, but also for students. We have to be very careful and decide what to do with the students according to the level and neccesities
ReplyDeleteGood Job Cecy!
ReplyDeleteI like the video that you include in order to create techniques into the classroom to teach grammar in an effectively way. Also Grammar is a key part to develop skills on students for develop their communicative aspect of interaction .