If learners are going to be able to make sense of grammar they will need to be exposed to it in its contexts of use. Secondly, if learners are to achieve a functional command of a second language, they will need to be able to understand and produce not just isolated sentences, but whole [...]]]>

If learners are going to be able to make sense of grammar they will need to be exposed to it in its contexts of use. Secondly, if learners are to achieve a functional command of a second language, they will need to be able to understand and produce not just isolated sentences, but whole texts in that language. Listening can help students acquire vocabulary and grammar, and the fact that a teacher encourages students to choose for themselves what they listen to and to do so for pleasure and general language improvement can also have a dramatic effect on a students’ language learning. Many teachers use material on disk increasingly, when they want their students to practice listening skills. This has a number of advantages. Taped material allows students to hear a variety of different voices apart from just their own teacher’s. It gives them an opportunity to meet a range of varieties of English, the way in which mature people talk. Lecturați gratuit Methodical and Research Activity, autor Mariuta Carmen Chiritescu Lucrarea poate fi citită online doar în Librăria Scriitorilor (www.librariascriitorilor.ro). ISBN 978-606-30-5217-0

As they advance along the learning process, the teacher must use more complex exercises (e.g. integrative ones, grammar games) that should also target other language skills (e.g. reading or writing, full-text listening). However, drilling and controlled practice are still insufficient: the new structure has not become a linguistic habit, but merely a part of the [...]]]>

As they advance along the learning process, the teacher must use more complex exercises (e.g. integrative ones, grammar games) that should also target other language skills (e.g. reading or writing, full-text listening). However, drilling and controlled practice are still insufficient: the new structure has not become a linguistic habit, but merely a part of the learner’s passive knowledge, generally avoided or wrongly used in real-world situations. That is why, the practice stage must be followed by various communicative activities, in which the students are made to use the new structure in an interactive way, to exchange information and negotiate meaning. To encourage the students and involve them in the task, the activities must be imaginative and enjoyable and exploit the learners’ personal experience. Lecturați gratuit Creating, Adapting and Evaluating Activities for Teaching Grammar, autor Mariuta Carmen Chiritescu Lucrarea poate fi citită online doar în Librăria Scriitorilor (www.librariascriitorilor.ro). ISBN 978-606-30-5216-3