Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION V
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF MASBATE PROVINCE
CRISTETA BAGANO MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
Umabay Exterior, Mobo, Masbate

SESSION LEARNING EPISODES

DAY 2 |TOPIC: TEACHING GRAMMAR FOR COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

TITLE OF SESSION: TEACHING GRAMMAR FOR COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: STRATEGIES TO MAKE

GRAMMAR LESSONS EFFECTIVE
Duration: 2 Hours
Session Objectives At the end of the session, the participants are expected to:
1. Understand the importance of teaching grammar for
communicative competence
2. Identify the strategies of teaching grammar for communicative
competence
3. Identify the strategies of teaching grammar in large classes and in
context
Contribution To Workshop Outcomes This session provides knowledge and understanding on the strategies
teachers may use in teaching grammar communicatively, in teaching
grammar in large classes and in teaching grammar in context together
with consciousness-raising.
Key Understanding  Early approaches to foreign language instruction, including the
Grammar Translation Method (GTM), often taught grammar
separate from the larger contexts in which language is used. While
these approaches were often effective for developing a receptive
(reading) knowledge of a language, they sometimes failed to
provide students with the ability to use language communicatively
in speaking and writing.
 As a result, a number of approaches to language instruction since
Audiolingualism (ALM) have focused on developing communicative
competence. Communicative competence does not mean an
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Department of Education
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CRISTETA BAGANO MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
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absence of grammar instruction but rather grammar instruction

that leads to the ability to communicate effectively.
 So, what does “teaching grammar communicatively” mean? It
means that grammar instruction and lessons are not limited to
introducing a grammar item or items, having learners do controlled
exercises, and then later assessing students on their ability to
understand grammar items. It means designing grammar lessons
to include a communicative task or activity.
 A communicative task should provide students the opportunity to
use language to communicate.
 Many students find it hard to learn the English language as they
are facing difficulty in comprehending the lessons in grammar and
applying and using it in their conversation with others. A lot of
strategies are employed by the teachers in order to make the
learners communicate better in English but still, errors in grammar
could be seen in the way learners write and speak in English
classes. Teachers must employ strategies which will develop the
learners’ communication skills by teaching grammar
communicatively, teaching grammar in large classes and teaching
grammar in context. This will ensure that learners understand the
concepts in grammar and apply it in communicating with others.
 There are different stages in a communicative grammar lesson.
There are also strategies to teach grammar communicatively, in
large classes and in context. It’s up to the teachers to design an
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Department of Education
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SCHOOLS DIVISION OF MASBATE PROVINCE
CRISTETA BAGANO MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
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effective grammar lesson that will develop the communicative

competence of the learners.
Link with the Previous Session Can you still remember any rule of the subject-verb agreement? How
helpful is learning the rules of subject-verb agreement in your day-to-day
life?
Link with Next Session Is it important to teach grammar in writing communication letters such
as memoranda and e-mails? Do you know the strategies of writing
effective memos and e-mails?
References Teacher’s Corner: Teaching Grammar for Communicative Competence
www.americanenglish.state.gov
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanEnglishforEducators/

TIME KEY MESSAGES METHOD SLIDE SESSION MATERIA

ALLOTMEN Say Do OUTPUTS LS
T
5 minutes Say: When language learners think of Introduction: 1
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grammar instruction, they often recall Do: Brief

lectures of lengthy explanations about introduction about
grammar points; boring grammar the topic
drills, and translation exercises.
Perhaps no other aspect of language
learning has been as controversial as
teaching grammar. For many years,
researchers and teachers have argued
over whether we should even teach
grammar. In spite of the long-standing
grammar debate, the fact remains
that we do not use language without
grammar. Perhaps, then, the problem
is not grammar itself, but the ways
that grammar has been taught and
learned.
•Teaching grammar for
communicative competence is
important as it leads to better learning
to the learners especially the Filipino
learners who find it hard to write and
speak in English effectively. Many of
them commit a mistake in terms of
their grammar when communicating
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CRISTETA BAGANO MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
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and teachers should help them learn

easily and communicate their
thoughts effectively through various
activities that will lead to the
acquisition of the grammar lesson.
Good afternoon, everyone.
I hope that today’s session will enrich
you, fellow teachers, with the
important points of teaching grammar
for communicative competence.
2 minutes Say: My session is about Teaching Do: Present 2
Grammar for Communicative Objectives of the
Competence: Strategies to Make session
Grammar Lessons Effective.
These are the objectives of our
session:
1. Understand the importance of
teaching grammar for communicative
competence
2. Identify the strategies of teaching
grammar for communicative
competence
3. Identify the strategies of teaching
grammar in large classes and in
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Department of Education
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SCHOOLS DIVISION OF MASBATE PROVINCE
CRISTETA BAGANO MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
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context
10 minutes Say: Let’s have an activity. On a piece Do: INDIVIDUAL 3 Accomplished Bond
of bond paper, write down your ACTIVITY Individual Activity paper,
answers to the following questions: Give instructions of Sheets pen
1. As an English or Filipino teacher, the activity
how are you going to design an Outputs presented
effective grammar lesson? ACTIVITY:
2. As a teacher of other subjects, how
are you going to incorporate a Participants will
grammar lesson in your class? answer the
questions.

Participants will
present their output.
10 minutes Say: Let us check your answers and Do: 4-5
analyze the activity through the Processing/Analysis
following questions:
1. What are the answers that are the
same for all or most of the teachers
teaching the Filipino and English
subjects?
2. What are the answers that are the
same for all or most of the teachers
teaching other subjects? Are those
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answers effective in teaching

grammar for communicative
competence?
1 and 20 Say: Early approaches to foreign Do: ABSTRACTION 6-32
minutes language instruction, including the
Grammar Translation Method (GTM),
often taught grammar separate from
the larger contexts in which language
is used. While these approaches were
often effective for developing a
receptive (reading) knowledge of a
language, they sometimes failed to
provide students with the ability to
use language communicatively in
speaking and writing. What is
Audiolingualism? Audiolingualism
involves a drill routine of listening and
speaking in language learning.
My topic on Teaching Grammar
for Communicative Competence will
tackle on the strategies to be used to
make the learners communicate their
ideas effectively whether in written or
spoken forms.
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CRISTETA BAGANO MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
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10 minutes Say: With these concepts that you’ve APPPLICATION: 33 Five (5) Activity
learned today, let us check whether Direction: activities/strategies Sheets
you could apply it in this activity. 1. On a piece of bond to be used in
paper, list five teaching grammar
activities/strategies communicatively in
that you will use to each class.
teach grammar
communicatively in
your classes.
3 minutes Say: Before I end my session, let us all CLOSING: 35-37
remember that there’s nothing Remarkable
impossible in making our learners concepts from the
learn the basics of the English session
language particularly the application
of the grammar rules whether we are Do: Present the
English language teachers or not. All closing concepts
that we need to do is to think of (slides).
strategies and activities of teaching
and incorporating grammar lessons in
our classes to help our learners
become knowledgeable of the proper
application of the rules of grammar.
It’s just a matter of commitment and
dedication in order to make the
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learners gain an understanding of the

grammar lesson in any subject.
May we continue to help our learners
learn the grammar lessons whether in
English or Filipino.
Thank you very much for listening.

Prepared by:

ANACITA N. DELA ROSA

Teacher-III