What needs to be changed in grammar teaching?

This paper analyses the factors that have been complicated complicating the teaching of grammar in pre-university education for years now. We argue against the idea that language is merely a tool that students have to become familiar with and against the notion that linguistic knowledge is the exclu...

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Publicado: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departamento de Filología Española 2018
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:373c048bb0fc49769e5b2282e78d8a802021-12-05T14:07:23ZWhat needs to be changed in grammar teaching?10.5565/rev/regroc.122565-0394https://doaj.org/article/373c048bb0fc49769e5b2282e78d8a802018-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/regroc/article/view/12https://doaj.org/toc/2565-0394This paper analyses the factors that have been complicated complicating the teaching of grammar in pre-university education for years now. We argue against the idea that language is merely a tool that students have to become familiar with and against the notion that linguistic knowledge is the exclusive reserve of experts, while speakers need only concern themselves with using the language. We also explain that grammar teachers, unlike science teachers, do not train the ability to observe, discuss or reflect on grammatical structures. Instead, the many classroom hours devoted to grammar are spent on labelling (often without reflection) parts of speech and syntactic functions.Ignacio BosqueUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departamento de Filología EspañolaarticleTeachingcollege levelsgrammarlinguistic reflectionLanguage. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammarP101-410CAENESRevista de Gramática Orientada a las Competencias, Vol 1, Iss 1 (2018)
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EN
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topic Teaching
college levels
grammar
linguistic reflection
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
spellingShingle Teaching
college levels
grammar
linguistic reflection
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
Ignacio Bosque
What needs to be changed in grammar teaching?
description This paper analyses the factors that have been complicated complicating the teaching of grammar in pre-university education for years now. We argue against the idea that language is merely a tool that students have to become familiar with and against the notion that linguistic knowledge is the exclusive reserve of experts, while speakers need only concern themselves with using the language. We also explain that grammar teachers, unlike science teachers, do not train the ability to observe, discuss or reflect on grammatical structures. Instead, the many classroom hours devoted to grammar are spent on labelling (often without reflection) parts of speech and syntactic functions.
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title_short What needs to be changed in grammar teaching?
title_full What needs to be changed in grammar teaching?
title_fullStr What needs to be changed in grammar teaching?
title_full_unstemmed What needs to be changed in grammar teaching?
title_sort what needs to be changed in grammar teaching?
publisher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departamento de Filología Española
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