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Teaching Grammar
Teaching Grammar
Aims
• Because it is there
• It’s tidy
• It’s testable
• Grammar as a security blanket
• It made me who I am
• You have to teach the whole system
• Power
Nunan’s (2003) 3 Principles for teaching
grammar
• Drills
• Written exercises
• Dialogues
• Grammar-practice activities and games
References
• Cook, V. (2008).
• Hughes, A., & Lascaratou, C. (1982). Competing criteria
for error gravity. ELT Journal, 36(3), 175-182.
doi:10.1093/elt/36.3.175