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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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...
The difference between coherence and cohesion?
Cohesion and coherence What is the difference between coherence and cohesion? Broadly speaking, coherence and cohesion refer to the way a text is organized so that it can hold together. In a coherent text,...
Grammar rules or grammar constructions
Construction grammar Construction Grammar refers to a study of language that views grammar not as a collection of rules that generates sentences (as in generative grammar) but as a continuum involving both syntax and...
Meaning and Context in Language Teaching
Meaning and context in language teaching As language teachers, we would want to engage our students to acquire language meaningfully, to negotiate meaning and get their messages through. We do that in activities involving...
Linguistics Lecture
What is linguitics? In this lecture, best-selling author Steven Pinker introduces you to linguistics, the evolution of spoken language, and the debate over the existence of an innate universal grammar. He also explores why...
What is linguistics?
Definition of linguistics? Human language has been a topic of study for a long time. But the study of language in a scientific way is quite a new discipline. Started by de Saussure, linguistics...
What is language?
Definition of language Simply put, language is a set of signals used to communicate. Humans are not the only species that are endowed with the ability to communicate. Animals, too, have a well-defined system...
Why study linguistics?
What is linguistics and why study it? The following slideshare tries to answer these questions. Have a look! Why Study Linguistics from Cupid Lucid
Descrpitive and Prescriptive Grammar
Grammar teaching is a tricky enterprise. What is for some a straightforward rule may be for others a controversial issue. To make matters worse grammar is defined according to whether we have a descriptive...
