About Grammar Teaching

I found that Group Two provided a quite smooth transition during their presentation. As the first presenter, Shirley did her job that she gave students clear instructions about what they were going to show in class. Besides, I really appreciated that they applied a game as the warm-up activity. It was a nice shot indeed, since my concentration was caught and I kept looking forward to what the coming show was. Still, there was a great interaction between the teacher and students. In a word, Group Two really succeeded in meeting those points which I think they are rather difficult to achieve as a beginner.

To strike a balance between both extremes of a structured based curriculum and the interaction in class, I have an idea that playing board games might be helpful. Once I went to Wall Street language institution, I found board games were largely used in class, including Snakes & Ladders and clue games. A foreign teacher would explain the targeted grammar structure first by presenting a certain situation or story telling. Then it was time to practice by playing board games which were structure-based communicative activities. While students were involved in the game, our foreign teacher jotted down mistakes we made. Later on, teacher explained proper usage of words and grammar in response. I think that teaching grammar in this way quite fits into cognitive approach to the communicative one.