Language teaching works as means to provide access to knowledge and consequently to different way... more Language teaching works as means to provide access to knowledge and consequently to different ways of thinking, creating, feeling, acting, and conceiving reality. To learn a language, the student needs to use the grammatical rules in contexts that show a level of linguistic competence, in other words, it is impossible to learn a language without learning its structure. However, many current grammar classes in Vietnam still adapt the traditional teaching method, which may demotivate the students in learning English grammar and prevent them from improving their communicative skill. On the other hand, there is a widespread belief that Communicative Language Teaching does not include any grammar. In fact, the belief that CLT eclipsed attention to grammar is only partly true, since although CLT syllabuses are organized according to categories of meaning or functions, they still have a strong grammar basis (Thornbury, 1999); that is to say, the functions into which CLT syllabuses are organized are connected with their correspondent grammatical points. This paper shares some points of view on the role of Grammar in English Teaching and the current situation of Grammar Teaching, and then looks briefly at the advantages of implementing the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the traditional grammar lessons, and the way it makes the students learn a second language in an interactive, creative and communicative classroom environment.
Language teaching works as means to provide access to knowledge and consequently to different way... more Language teaching works as means to provide access to knowledge and consequently to different ways of thinking, creating, feeling, acting, and conceiving reality. To learn a language, the student needs to use the grammatical rules in contexts that show a level of linguistic competence, in other words, it is impossible to learn a language without learning its structure. However, many current grammar classes in Vietnam still adapt the traditional teaching method, which may demotivate the students in learning English grammar and prevent them from improving their communicative skill. On the other hand, there is a widespread belief that Communicative Language Teaching does not include any grammar. In fact, the belief that CLT eclipsed attention to grammar is only partly true, since although CLT syllabuses are organized according to categories of meaning or functions, they still have a strong grammar basis (Thornbury, 1999); that is to say, the functions into which CLT syllabuses are organized are connected with their correspondent grammatical points. This paper shares some points of view on the role of Grammar in English Teaching and the current situation of Grammar Teaching, and then looks briefly at the advantages of implementing the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the traditional grammar lessons, and the way it makes the students learn a second language in an interactive, creative and communicative classroom environment.
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