CONTEXT OF FORMING STUDENTS’GRAMMAR SKILLS THROUGH TASKS IN MANUALS OF PAVLO TYCHYNA UMAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of the basic ways of developing grammar skills of future EFL teachers. It presents the most used set of exercises and tasks oriented to enhance foreign grammar skills and presented in educators’ manuals of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University. It presents common and different characteristics of teaching books and educators’ manuals of the University. The article analyzes the popular modern approach to teaching grammar “present, then practise”. It proves that tasks in manuals aim to help teach grammar theory through practice of some lexical items and idioms, discourse and different styles of English as well.The aim of the article is to analyze the context of forming students’ grammar skills through tasks in manuals of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University; to find the common and different characteristics of teaching books and manuals.The article indicates the main ideal of manuals that is as following: to supplement or partly substitute the main teaching book; it contains the set of tasks to form chief students’ language skills; it has some recommendations for individual studying, refers to students’ syllabus and reflects the teaching needs of the faculty or university. It is proved that the approach “present, then practice” for teaching grammar should be organized in several steps that are clearly presented in educators’ manuals: 1) tasks to guess, compare the grammatical structure; 2) tasks to use the grammatical structure in students’ prepared speech; 3) writing tasks to practise grammatical structure; 4) tasks to practise grammatical structure on the spot.The conducted research indicates the importance of teaching grammar for understanding its meaning, finding grammar in discourse and choosing grammatical structures for forming different language styles.
 Keywords: foreign education; grammar skills; manuals; teaching books; students; set of language tasks; teaching grammar; future EFL teacher.