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CHAPTER 7

Teaching Grammar

Present-Practice

What is grammar?

Clarification

Restricted Output

Rules about sentence formation, tenses, verb patterns in a reference book.

About learning grammar you will predict grammar information when someone tell you a sentence.

Presentation

Usually refers to ways of introducing supposedly "new" language to learners and typically involves exposure to it.

Practice

It involves the stages in which learners get to try using the language themselves.

Many "present-practice" lesson are structured as shown:

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Teacher explanation

- Teacher decides what information will be necessary to state explicity.

-A good explanation can often be the clearest and most efficient wat to teach something.

Guided Discovery

- Teacher selects appropiate tasks.

- Offers appropiate instructions.

-T manages and structure the lesson so that all learners are involved and engaged.

-Ask good questions that encourage the learners to notice language.

Self-Directed Discovery

Is about what learners do when they are studying on their own without teacher.

R. O. Activities

Limited options for use language.

Lmited options for communication.

Focus on accuracy.

The real learning experience is when learners try to use the language themselves.