What is Grammar? Defining Grammar for Teachers
What is grammar? This article tries to investigate how grammar has been defined during the history of language teaching. We will start with the traditional view of what grammar is all about. Then, we...
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Inductive and Deductive Approaches to Grammar Teaching
What is the difference between inductive and deductive grammar teaching? This blog post tries to describe the difference between the inductive and deductive approaches to grammar teaching. It starts by distinguishing between implicit and...
What is the difference between prescriptive, descriptive and pedagogic grammar?
What is the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar? In this post, we will try to look at the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammar. We will also try to highlight some examples that...
Used to lesson plan for intermediate learners (PPP)
Used to lesson plan for intermediate learners (the PPP approach) This is a lesson plan suitable for intermediate level learners. The aim is to develop students’ ability to talk about past habits using ‘used...
Teaching conditional type 1 lesson plan
Conditional type 1 lesson plan based on discovery learning This is a conditional type 1 lesson plan. The lesson is based on a discovery learning approach to language teaching. It involves consciousness-raising activities to...
Lesson plan on articles for upper intermediate students
This is a lesson plan on articles for upper intermediate students. It is inspired by one of Scott Thornbury’s grammar activities in his excellent book: How to teach grammar, 1999. Although using a deductive...
Third conditional lesson plan
Third conditional lesson plan This is a third conditional lesson plan. It aims at presenting and practicing the form and use of the third conditional. It adopts a discovery procedure in teaching grammar and...
Grammarly Review – 2017
Grammarly review Grammarly is an application for checking grammar, spelling, and punctuation. The application aims at improving students, bloggers, writers, and professionals’ writing skills. Grammarly can be also used to check plagiarism. How is...
Drilling in English Language Teaching
Drilling This article is about drilling in English language teaching, a technique that is still being used by many teachers although it has been discredited in modern methods. The article will try to discuss...
Arguments against grammar syllabus according to Scott Thornbury
Arguments against grammar syllabus This is a video where Scott Thornbury is arguing against a grammar syllabus. He contends that there are eight arguments that compel us to reject such syllabus. Scott’s Eight arguments...
