Teaching Grammar by Diane Larsen Freeman

1. UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADOR
INSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE CARACAS
DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS MODERNOS
CATEDRA DE METODOLOGÍA
TEACHING GRAMMAR BY DIANE
LARSEN FREEMAN
Authors:
Luis Villar
Hector Rojas
CARACAS, MAY 2012

2. RECOMMENDATIONS FOUND IN THE
ARTICLE:
 Conventional use of grammar
 Encourage a balance between Grammar and
Communication
 Integration of Morphosyntactic, semantics and
pragmatics

3. THE LEARNING PROCESS:
 Learning through mapping,
meaning and use instead of
accumulation of structures
 Backsliding, if guided may
reinforce previous
knowledge

4. THE LEARNING PROCESS:
 Learners’ beliefs on L1
influencing new concepts on
L2
 Different learning processes
affect SLA and they should
be considered

5. THE TEACHING PROCESS:
 Aims at having students using forms
accurately, meaningfully, and
appropriately.
 The PPP (presentation, practice and
production) approach should be
systematically built toward
communication
 Instead of scheduling
Grammar, teachers should derivate it
according to the teacher’s decisions

6. THE TEACHING PROCESS:
 Noticing, recasting and reformulating are processes
that help grasping the information in a meaningful
way, however, it’s teacher sided.
 Enhancing the input, is another way to make
students notice grammar; also, through input
flooding.
 Consciousness-raising task, permits students
introduce grammatical generalizations from the
data they have.

7. °The garden path, gives students information about
structure without giving them the full picture, to provide
it in an amicable way.
°Input processing, Output production and Collaborative
dialogue are other ways to enhance student’s learning.

8. THE TEACHING PROCESS:
 Emphasizing meaningful Form exercises instead of
mechanical drills, students should receive feedback
 Associating Meaning and Form of the particular target
structure studied is the goal
 Teachers must create
the perfect
environment for
students to Use the
previous two points

9. REFERENCES:
 Teaching English as a Second or Foreign
Language. Celce - Murcia.