<<Approaches and
procedures for
teaching grammar>>
Grammatical rules
enable learners to know
and apply how such
sentence patterns
should be put together
(Ur, 1999).
Teaching grammar
should encompass
language structure or
sentence patterns,
meaning and use.
PROEMINENCE
Reading
Comprehend sentence
interrelationship in a
paragraph, a passage
and a text.
Writing
Put the
ideas into
intelligible
sentences so
that they can
successfully
communicate
in a written
form.
Listening
Speaking
Grasping and expressing
spoken language –
expressions (Corder, 1988;
Widodo, 2004).
IMPLICIT
KNOWLEDGE
It is automatic and
easily accessed and
provides a great
contribution to
building
communicative skills.
Implicit knowledge is
unconscious, internalized
knowledge of language that is
easily accessed during
spontaneous language tasks,
written or spoken (Brown, 2000).
The child implicitly learns
aspects of language (for
example, phonological,
syntactical, semantic, pragmatic
rules for language), but does not
have access to an explanation of
those rules explicitly (Brown,
2000).
EXPLICIT
KNOWLEDGE
It is conscious
knowledge of
grammatical rules
learned through
formal classroom
instruction.
A person with explicit knowledge
knows about language and the
ability to articulate those facts in
some way (Brown, 2000).
Explicit
knowledge is also
obtained through
the practice of
error correction,
INDUCTIVE
APPROACH
An inductive approach comes from
inductive reasoning stating that a
reasoning progression proceeds from
particulars - observations,
measurements, or data - to
generalities - rules, laws, concepts or
theories (Felder & Henriques, 1995).
The learners learn the system of
language - grammar
or sentence rules- in the same
way as children acquire their first
or second language <<Natural
Communication>>.
DEDUCTIVE
APPROACH
It is derived from the notion
that deductive reasoning works
from the general to the specific.
In this case, rules, principles,
concepts, or theories are
presented first, and then their
applications are treated.
Learners be in control during
practice and have less fear of
drawing an incorrect conclusion
related to how the target language is
functioning. To sum up, the
deductive approach commences with
the presentation of a rule taught
(Eisenstein 1987).
TEACHING
GRAMMAR
3) Familiarize students with
the rule in use through
exercises or rule practice.
Exercises, checks for students’
comprehension, and encourages
active student involvement -
Familiarize the students with the
grammatical item in use.
2) Elicit functions of the rule
or rule elicitation.
Features of the sentence and tenses -
Consolidate the students’ comprehension
about what they have guessed in Step 1.
1) Build up students’
knowledge of the rule or rule
initiation.
Leading questions and providing
model sentences - Stimulate
students’ self-confidence.
4) Check students’
comprehension or rule
activation.
Assessment of student comprehension - Apply
the concept of the grammatical item learned
productively, not receptively.
5) Expand students’
knowledge or rule
enrichment.
Activities to reinforce some concepts and even to relate new ones -
Be expert in applying the rule on the basis of their cognitive capacity,
differentiate between the concepts they already know and the
newly introduced grammatical item.