Beliefs and Practices towards Teaching and Learning Grammar: A Multicase Study

This text presents a multi-case study focused on 5th and 6th grades’ (10 - 12 years-old students) teachers’ beliefs and practices towards the process of teaching and learning grammar. Current practices of grammar instruction are connected to prescriptive approaches, outdated, disconnected from ling...

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Autor principal:	Patrícia Ferreira
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	CA EN ES FR
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2014
Materias:	Grammar teachers’ beliefs teachers’ practices first language curriculum metalanguage Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Language and Literature P
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/b04647cd407d422cb41b98c9db4cbe27
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b04647cd407d422cb41b98c9db4cbe272021-11-25T13:22:18ZBeliefs and Practices towards Teaching and Learning Grammar: A Multicase Study10.5565/rev/jtl3.5302013-6196https://doaj.org/article/b04647cd407d422cb41b98c9db4cbe272014-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/jtl3/article/view/530https://doaj.org/toc/2013-6196 This text presents a multi-case study focused on 5th and 6th grades’ (10 - 12 years-old students) teachers’ beliefs and practices towards the process of teaching and learning grammar. Current practices of grammar instruction are connected to prescriptive approaches, outdated, disconnected from linguistic theory, and ineffective at improving communicative skills. Research has revealed that to promote real changes in practices it is important to act upon all the dimensions of teachers’ professional knowledge, including tacit phenomena, like beliefs, by means of professional training and development. The recent modification of the Portuguese Language curriculum reflects a new paradigm in grammar teaching, based upon a constructivist approach. Therefore, it is relevant to know how teachers implement it and how what they think about teaching grammar affects their practices.Data analysis revealed inconsistencies between beliefs and practices, leading to the conclusion that teachers have difficulties facing the required adjustment to the emerging paradigm. Patrícia FerreiraUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleGrammarteachers’ beliefsteachers’ practicesfirst language curriculummetalanguageSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691Language and LiteraturePCAENESFRBellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, Vol 7, Iss 3 (2014)
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spellingShingle	Grammar teachers’ beliefs teachers’ practices first language curriculum metalanguage Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Language and Literature P Patrícia Ferreira Beliefs and Practices towards Teaching and Learning Grammar: A Multicase Study
description	This text presents a multi-case study focused on 5th and 6th grades’ (10 - 12 years-old students) teachers’ beliefs and practices towards the process of teaching and learning grammar. Current practices of grammar instruction are connected to prescriptive approaches, outdated, disconnected from linguistic theory, and ineffective at improving communicative skills. Research has revealed that to promote real changes in practices it is important to act upon all the dimensions of teachers’ professional knowledge, including tacit phenomena, like beliefs, by means of professional training and development. The recent modification of the Portuguese Language curriculum reflects a new paradigm in grammar teaching, based upon a constructivist approach. Therefore, it is relevant to know how teachers implement it and how what they think about teaching grammar affects their practices.Data analysis revealed inconsistencies between beliefs and practices, leading to the conclusion that teachers have difficulties facing the required adjustment to the emerging paradigm.
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title	Beliefs and Practices towards Teaching and Learning Grammar: A Multicase Study
title_short	Beliefs and Practices towards Teaching and Learning Grammar: A Multicase Study
title_full	Beliefs and Practices towards Teaching and Learning Grammar: A Multicase Study
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Beliefs and Practices towards Teaching and Learning Grammar: A Multicase Study

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