• Textbook Review: Grammar and Beyond, 3

    Author(s):
    SLS Working Papers (view group) , Laura Eickhoff
    Editor(s):
    Jessica Fox, Irina Zaykovskaya
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    SLS Working Papers
    Subject(s):
    Applied linguistics, Second language acquisition
    Item Type:
    Online publication
    Tag(s):
    review
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/e1r3-8d70
    Abstract:
    As recent years have brought with them a post-method pedagogy in language teaching where educators are recognizing the need to create a more holistic and context-driven approach to teaching a language in a given environment, so too has the need for a more communicative language teaching approach arisen where learners acquire productivity in the target language to communicate effectively, rather than simply gaining theoretical and abstract knowledge of the language (Duff, 2014; Kumaravadivelu, 2001). While Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), with information exchange, group work, and negotiation of meaning is not a mutually exclusive concept with explicit grammar teaching, teaching grammar in a communicative way, where students move beyond forms and begin to explore and experiment with meaning and use, often proves challenging and does not appear in all of textbooks or classrooms (Larsen-Freeman, 2014). Grammar and Beyond, 3 takes on this challenge and claims to present grammar in a communicative, corpus-based way without eliminating explicit grammar instruction. In doing so, it presents grammatical forms in a contextualized way that facilitates communicative tasks, rather than simply isolated focus on form occurrences (Ellis, 2006). To make it even more applicable to students, the book uses a corpus-based approach to expose students to real world uses of the forms and then engages them in “grammaring” to create productions with the grammar that incorporates structure, semantics, and pragmatics (Larsen-Freeman, 2014).
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    Publisher:
    SLS Working Papers
    Pub. Date:
    2015
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