A proposal of reflection on English Grammar Teaching

Isael Gómez López,Yoel Pérez Sánchez

doi:10.34069/ra/2021.7.04

Abstract

The present work poses a reflection with the English language teachers on the importance that should be awarded to grammar in the teaching and learning of this language. Without leaving aside the integrating character promoted by the communicative approach in the treatment of the leading skills and the insertion of the students in communicative situations that enables the practice in linguistic habits formation through the development of the different components that are part of the communicative competence, the author expresses some ideas and criteria on how the professorship can teach grammar by means of the abilities to speak and write in English, and not English only through grammar.Cross grammar teaching from the leading skills-according to what is being analyzed by this author_ provides the tools and is the vehicle to carry out any communicative endeavor beyond the classroom. The author presents a system of exercises that show the transversal relationship of grammar with the leading skills. For the development of this work some methods were used such as: historic-logical, analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive, systemic-structural-functional and the documentary revision. With the applicationof this grammatical proposal the students improved their speaking and writing skills, and their linguistic self-confidence was increased as well.

Highlights

The foreign language lesson is sustained on general didactic linguistic, pedagogical and psychological foundations which depict it as such.Any approach, idea or suggestion to go far towards the qualitative enhancement of foreign language teaching should definitely focus on the lesson because it is the framework in which both leading actors of this moment play their role.The two-sided character of the teaching-learning process is marked through a mutual interaction between the activity of teaching performed by the teacher, and by that of the students, that is learning.The lesson is a way to impinge upon the formation and development of the pupilspersonality
Idea or suggestion to go far towards the qualitative enhancement of foreign language teaching should definitely focus on the lesson because it is the framework in which both leading actors of this moment play their role
In foreign language teaching is important that the teacher has a vast knowledge of the linguistic elements that characterize it

Summary

Introduction

The foreign language lesson is sustained on general didactic linguistic, pedagogical and psychological foundations which depict it as such. What has been stated insofar does not mean that all teachers have forgotten about the role of grammar in English teaching, but if there is any doubt about the importance of this reflection, suffice it to recall the amount of time spent by the students in learning English from elementary education up to high school or college, and not always the communicative outcome in this language is the expected one. The author of this article sums up his points of view and criteria about cross grammar teaching on the idea that it is the coherently graded treatment of the grammatical material whose theoretical mastery and practical use is reinforced through the leading skills so as to attain a more solid communicative sufficiency.

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