ENG 106: Classroom Orientation

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ENG 109: TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF GRAMMAR

 Week 3: Issues of
grammar teaching and
assessment

Ms. Jheena Mae

Madjaluddin
Ms. Divine lyn Ortuyo
Presenters
 Chapter Points
 7 Arguments why grammar should
be taught
 Pedagogical issues of teaching
grammar

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 Chapter Objectives
In this chapter, you are expected to:
 Justify the occurrence of the issues
identified in teaching and assessing
grammar and;
 Deduce the relevance and
implications of understanding issues
in grammar teaching
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Tackling the different issues of grammar
teaching and assessment will help you
cope with the challenges on how to
manage your language class to help them
understand and deal with the different
issues in grammar teaching and
assessment knowing students’ differing
abilities and cultural background.

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In the process of grammar teaching and
learning, it is unavoidable that we meet
several challenges and issues regarding
teachers’ and students’ beliefs about
grammar.

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Why teach grammar?

ENG 109: TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF GRAMMAR

 According to Thornbury(2006),
there are seven arguments why
grammar should be taught and
put as the forefront of language
teaching
1. The sentence-machine argument – Grammar is like a
“sentence-making machine” and it gives learners the
opportunity to develop their limitless linguistic creativity.
The number of sentences a learner can make is
controlled by vocabulary at the learners’ command and
creativity.

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2. The fine-tuning argument – Teaching grammar
is corrective against ambiguity.
3. The fossilization argument – Linguistic
competence becomes fossilized when learners
who receive no instruction become at risk of
fossilizing sooner.
4. The advance-organizer argument - Grammar
instruction could have a delayed effect. Grammar
teaching received previously even insufficient can
still turn one into a fluent speaker especially when
there was a heavy emphasis on grammar.

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5. The discrete item argument – Grammar
consists of an apparently finite set of rules that
can help reduce the apparent enormity of the
language learning task for both teacher and
students by tidying language up and organizing it
into neat categories(sometimes called discrete
items); grammarians make language digestible.
6. The rule-of-law argument – Since grammar is a
system of learnable units, it lends itself to a view
of teaching and learning known as transmission.

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7. The learner expectation argument –
Regardless of the many arguments for or
against grammar teaching, learners do
come To language classes with fairly fixed
expectations. These expectations may be
derived from previous classroom
experiences.

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 PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES
Research findings show that there are five
main challenges in teaching grammar that
teachers face , namely lack of
experience, expectation of the
students, lack of facilities, negative
perception on the teaching of grammar
and preparing grammar lessons (Yusob,
2018).
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 PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES
Lack of experience and students’ Expectations
Students have high expectations of teachers.
When teachers lack the experience, it is
tantamount to failing. Teachers must know his or
her students, how they learn, and how to make
them learn. Experience is something essential in
managing a grammar class and the lack of
experience makes grammar teaching for them a
trial and error event which often results to learning
frustrations on the part of the students.
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PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES
Lack of facilities
Crucial to aid in making grammar lesson more
meaningful are the sufficient facilities. Enough exposure
of the target language will help learner learn language
better (Ana & Ratminingsih, 2012). Teaching and learning
process can be done with the chalk-and-talk method
(Hassan, 2013; Normazidah, Koo & Hazita, 2012), but the
lesson might be perceive as boring. Students these days
appreciate the lessons which involves more the use of
ICT facilities or at least presentation slides (Hiew, 2012).

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PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES
Negative perceptions on the teaching of grammar
The way we perceive grammar greatly affects
the amount of learning and rate of proficiency in
language learning. Having a negative perception
on language teaching as noted by Wong and
Barrea-Marlys(2012) may demotivate both the
English lectures and the students. They, the
students have to bear the consequences as a
result of the English lectures’ perceptions.
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 PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES
Preparing grammar lessons
Preparing grammar lessons can be very
heavy and difficult on the part of the teacher
than most people think. Azar(2007) emphasized
that the lessons should be a balance between
fulfilling the students’ needs and achieving the
objectives. English teachers should find good
resources and materials in preparing grammar
lessons.
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ENG 109: TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF GRAMMAR:
 Thank You!

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