COURSE INFORMATION

Course Name Teaching  and Assessment of Grammar Course Code

Pre-requisite Subject Course Credit 3 units, 3 hrs. /wk. (18 weeks, 54 hrs
total)

Course Requirements

Grading System

Course Description BTIs covered

This course equips the pre-service English teachers with an understanding between and among the four types of grammar: functional, descriptive,
prescriptive and pedagogic. Aside from the emphasis on how teaching and assessment vary considering the four types, the course also provides an 1.1.1
avenue to carry out analysis on the role of grammar in achieving communicative competence. Specifically, it allows them to demonstrate linguistic 3.2.1
proficiency as an important factor in promoting their students' literacy skills. As a manifestation of this competency, they are required to apply teaching 5.1.1
strategies that are responsive to their students’ linguistic backgrounds considering the principles of formative and summative assessments.

Course Learning Outcomes BTIs covered

At the end of the course, the pre-service teachers should be able to:

A. design a compendium of assessment tasks-formative and summative, which are consistent with the selected competencies;  5.1.1
B. craft a learning plan that promotes literacy among their students by incorporating their principled understanding of assessment of grammar; and 1.4.1, 3.2.1
C. conduct a teaching demonstration using innovative teaching approaches and tasks that are responsive to the students' linguistic needs 5.1.1
 Time Intended Learning BTIs
Allotment Outcomes (ILOs)
Weeks 1-2 At the end of these weeks,
the pre- service teacher
(PST) should be able to:
a. discuss the 1.1.1
fundamental terms and
concepts associated to
the teaching and
assessing of grammar;
and
b. share the implications
of one's knowledge of
key concepts in the
teaching learning
process.
Weeks 2-4 At the end of these weeks,
the pre- service teacher
(PST) should be able to:
a. justify the occurrence 1.1.1
of the issues identified
in teaching and
assessing grammar;
and
b. deduce the relevance
and implications of
understanding issues
in grammar teaching.
Content Suggested Teaching Learning Activities Suggested BTIs
Assessment
1. Key Terms and
Concepts  Getting to Know Me  Crowdsourcing 
in Managing and The class will be given the strips of paper with the Students will formulate
Implementing important terminology associated with the teaching and questions which they
Standards- assessment of grammar. They take turn in writing and think are relevant in 1.1.1
based Grammar discussing what they know about them. Feedback and understanding the
Teaching Input will follow after this activity. concepts. The
1. Grammaring questions will be
2. Grammaticalizing Suggested sources include Mohamed Benhima (2015). posted for the students
3. Error correction vs "Grammaring," The fifth skill in language teaching and to answer/comment.
feedback learning. https://www.moroccoworldnews.c Ability to crowd-source
4. Spoken vs written om/2015/06/160095/grammaring- the-fifth-skill-in- will be rated using a
grammar language-teaching- and-learning/ and Nan, C. (2015). scoring rubric.
5. Grammatical Grammar and grammaring: toward modes for English
assessment grammar teaching in China.
6. Pedagogical Issues https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1
084297.pdfdoi:10.5539/elt.v8n12p79
2. Issues of Grammar
Teaching and
Assessment  Symposium  Therefore, I say... 
The students are to 1.1.1
1. Why should we The class is assigned to plan and conduct a symposium justify why issues in
teach grammar?  which theme is on understanding the issues of grammar teaching grammar
2. Pedagogical Issues teaching and assessment. Sufficient time'shall be given occur and identify
3. Sequencing for planning, reading and preparing. ways to address
4. Choice of Methods them. In addition,
5. Patterns and The students may be asked to read, How to Teach they will deduce the
Reasons, Not Rules Grammar. This file can be accessed in relevance and
6. From Structuralism http://www2.vobs.at/ludescher/pdf implications of
to Transformational %20files/grammar.pdf. understanding
Generative issues in grammar
Grammar  This will provide them with the seven arguments for teaching.
7. Fossilization putting grammar in the foreground in second language
teaching.
 Issues, Issues

At the end of these weeks, the pre-
Weeks 5-8 service teacher (PST) should be able
to:
a. design a grammar teaching
portfolio that contain the
important elements and sample
assessment tasks;
b. design lessons based on the
competencies given; and  demo-lecture.
c. conduct a demo-lecture on the
assigned method of teaching
grammar.
Weeks 9-11 At the end of these weeks, the pre-
service teacher (PST) should be able
The students will be asked to present and provide
justifications of issues on grammar teaching.
3. Methods of Teaching
Grammar
 Group Dynamics  E-portfolio
1. Diagramming sentences
2. Learning through writing  The class will be given time to The class submits an e- 5.1.1
5.1.1 3. Inductive teaching complete their Grammar Teaching portfolio which contains
(A) 4. Deductive teaching  e-Portfolio. Peer review and the essence of Unit 3.
5. Interactive teaching critiquing will be done to enhance This also includes their
the contents and presentation of the reflections and/or 1.4.1
6. Functional-notional
e-portfolio. realizations after the
1.4.1 approach 
5.1.1 7. Situational contexts
8. Using texts, stories, songs
(B,C)  Micro teaching/Demo-lect A scoring rubric will be 5.1.1
and rhymes  used to rate the
9. PPP The class will be in groups and each students' work.
group identifies who the
demonstrator be. Only a portion/
segment of the lesson will be
Modes for Teaching Grammar
presented to substantiate their
discussion.
1. Linguistic mode 
2. Story-telling mode
Suggested materials can be
accessed from
https://www.inklyo.com/methods- of-
teaching-grammar/, and
http://teach-grammar.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/07/The-
Grammar-of-Choice+.pdf (The
Grammar of Choice by Larsen
Freeman
4. Rules for Teaching Grammar
 Let's Watch This  How about this?
 to: 1. Rule of context
2. Rule of use  As a lead-in task, the students may The class will construct 1.4.1
a. construct narratives/ situationers 1.4.1 3. Rule of economy be asked to view Effortless English and present teaching
that present the different rules in 4. Rule of relevance Rule 2 Don't Study situation/s that
(B)
teaching grammar 5. Rule of nurture Grammar Rules! By A.J. Hoge present/s the different
from rules in teaching
6. Rule of appropriacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch ? grammar.
v=Z97aFszFc9M.
Then, challenged them to find its
relevance in the way teachers teach
grammar to non-English speakers.

Input on the rules may be taken

from:
http://www2.vobs.at/ludescher/p df
%20files/grammar.pdf, How to
Teach Grammar.

 Critical Reading and Sharing

Identifying scenarios/ situations
where the rules are observed or
violated.

Weeks 12-18 At the end of these weeks, the pre- 5. Assessing Grammar
service teacher (PST) should be able to: Effectively Creation of the 5.1.1
 Do you remember? Compendium
a. create a compendium of assessment 1. Ways to address
tasks- both formative and summative.
5.1.1
grammar in the writing Asking the class how were their The class, given the grade-
(A) papers graded or marked for their level competencies, will
classroom
error in sentence structure. create a compendium of
2. Ways to assess
assessment tasks. In this
grammar skill  Showing samples of graded papers way, they will be able to
3. Methods of marking

grammatical errors to show the ways to address the enrich the K to 12

4. Grammar resources grammar in writing. To deepen, the curriculum. Presentation of
5. Three-Dimensional class may visit compendiums will be done
Grammar Framework during the last week of the
6. Innovations in grammar https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/teacher semester. A scoring rubric
assessment and tutor resources/teaching_re will be used to rate the
7. Redefining the construct  Sources/teaching and assessing students' work.
grammar.html (Teaching and
 8. Partial scoring
9. Social dimension
10. The standard
Assessing Grammar In the Writing
Classroom), and read
Hanse, L. and Keown, K.(2017).
Assessing grammar and language
convention skills.
https://achievethecore.org/aligned
lassessing-grammar-and- language-
convention-skills/.; and

Diane Larsen-Freeman. Teaching

and Testing Grammar. http://teach-
grammar.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/07/Teachin g-
and-Testing-Grammar. pdf

Suggested References
 Celce-Murcia, M. (1991). Grammar pedagogy in second and foreign language teaching. TESOL Quarterly, 25(3), 459-480. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3586980
 Diane Larsen-Freeman. Teaching and testing grammar. Retrieved from http://teach-grammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Teaching-and-Testing-Grammar.pdf  
 Hanse, L. and Keown, K.(2017). Assessing grammar and language convention skills. https://achievethecore.org/aligned/assessing-grammar-and-language-convention-
skills/
 How to teach grammar from http://www2.vobs.at/ludescher/pdf%20files/grammar.pdf
 Larsen-Freeman (2012). The Grammar of choice. Retrieved from http://teach-grammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Grammar-of- Choice+.pdf
 Larsen-Freeman. Teaching grammar. Retrieved from https://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/staff/freeman/course-documents/tesfl teaching grammar.pdf 
 Mohamed Benhima (2015). "Grammaring." The fifth skill in language teaching and learning. Retrieved from
 https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2015/06/160095/grammaring-the-fifth-skill-in-language-teaching-and-learning/ 
 Nan, C. (2015). Grammar and grammaring: toward modes for English grammar teaching in China. Retrieved from
 https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1084297.pdf, doi:10.5539/elt.v8n12p79 
 Nozadze, A. (2017). How to make the assessment of grammar skills more efficient? Retrieved from https://jebs.ibsu.edu.ge/ms/index.php/je/article/download/73/81
 Purpura, J. (2013). Assessing Grammar. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118411360.wbcla147 https://www.inklyo.com/methods-of-teaching-grammar?
 Teaching and Assessing Grammar. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/teacher_and_tutor resources/teaching resources/teaching and assessing grammar.html
 Ways to assess grammar skill. https://www.scribd.com/document/265191308/Ways-to-Assess-Gramma r

Prepared by:

Mrs. OFELIA E. RICAFORT

BSED/BEED Department
College of Education
0918-243-0464