Grammar In Class

My love affair with Grammar was once an unstable, inconsistent one. It began in 12th grade, my senior year of high school. Mind you, it’s not that I met Grammar in high school; I knew him, well, for most of my life. I began reading at the age of three, and it can be rightly stated that Grammar and I began our relationship at that time. You see, I was a precocious early reader, who cracked the reading code, without formal instruction. I realized that there was a rhythm, cadence, and pattern to language, and as soon as I began writing manuscript letters, I began to practice placing words in their proper order.

The website used for this week’s grammar tip is actually really funny. The presentation is very well organized and the creators way of explaining how to properly use semicolons is used with simple but comedic sentences; using the examples in a comedic sense made is easier for me to grasp the reasoning behind the rule. My favorite example was the one that explained the pauses between commas, semicolons, and periods by using a bear trying to steal a lunch box. It was funny and the simple example made it easier for me to grasp the point of the example. This week’s grammar tip will be a wonderful reference, the simple explanation of semi colons will provide examples in the

If anyone has told you that grammar is not important then they were very wrong. Grammar is and will always be necessary in your life. Whether you're talking to employers and peers, writing a resume, or getting a career. Grammar will be a big part of your life.

People around the world have various differences upon what they find attractive in someone’s personality. The article, “What’s Really Hot on Dating Sites? Proper Grammar,” proves this by giving three different points. Firstly, most women may not even be interested in you if your grammar isn’t proper. Secondly, it is more likely that you would trust somebody with proper grammar. Thirdly, men determine whether they find somebody attractive or not, based on looks.

Grammar teaching has been a hot issue when it comes to language learning and acquisition. As so many issues rose, same goes to the research that has been conducted to calm down the tense. The knowledge of Grammar is not only a necessity for the native speaker but to the second language learner as well. Grammar knowledge is the core element of the production of speech that we use to communicate. This interest has brings me to review the article by Zhou Ke concerns about the inductive approach to English Grammar teaching. The author talks about how the inductive approach helps to rediscover the subconscious knowledge and change to conscious knowledge that will help learners to identify as well as personalize the rules on their own. The author further discusses how the application of this inductive approach works in the teaching process. The notion in the final segment of the article consists of the advantages of inductive approach compared to deductive approach to English Grammar teaching.

Grammar is very important in writing, it helps in all different kinds of writing, articles, E-mails, documents, reports, etc. Writing is a very challenging activity for many learners, thus, having the

In terms of learning grammar, it can be said that most students or maybe almost every student of English language tend to have some difficulties in understanding the rules and also in using the appropriate patterns in sentences, especially when it comes to different given contexts. On many occasions, different given contexts can mean different rules and it may lead to different patterns. However, when it comes to grammar rules, many students find that it is not so easy to internalize many of those rules that even though they have learned it intensively, they still do not understand it well. In many different cases, it happens because choosing and knowing the appropriate rules itself sometimes can be a problem which is quite hard to solve if the students do not understand the contexts. Thus, the students have to understand the given contexts first in order to know which rule is the most

Wittgenstein’s later concept of grammar: Grammar, qua investigation, only describes, but does not explain, the use of words. Grammar, qua object of grammatical investigation, consists of rules for the use of signs that determine their meaning.

Joan Didion once said, "Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power"(Didion). This quotation shows that even people who don't know much about grammar can recognize its importance. While the school is redesigning its English curriculum, they are trying to decided how much grammar should be taught and if it will be taught at all. While people may have differing opinions, it is quite clear that grammar should be taught in the school's curriculum because it creates good credibility, prepares you for a successful life, and makes writing understandable.

As it has already been mentioned, there is a set of rules which govern how units of meaning may be constructed in any language. Thus, it is possible to state that a learner who "knows grammar" is one who has mastered and can apply these rules to express himself in what should be considered acceptable language forms. There is no doubt that knowledge, implicit or explicit, of grammatical rules is essential for the mastery of a language: we cannot use words unless we know how to put them together.

Grammar was considered as one of the most important for the development of a language. It was defined as set of rules and regulations for English language. There are many different types of grammar and they are,

Do you think grammar is important? Do you know the function of grammar? Can you imagine living a life without grammar? Grammar is a set of rules for language. In this chapter, we will cover general ideas of grammar, including the definition, history, development, syntax, and how learners learn grammar.

Grammar is the set of rules dealing with syntax and word construction. It is very important to understand the grammar for second language acquisition. The more we are mindful of how it functions, the more we can screen the importance and viability of the way we and others utilize dialect. It can help foster exactness, perceive unclearness, and enterprise the extravagance of statement open in English. It not help only the teachers of english but helps teachers of anything.

You often find that teachers will not teach that in depth into grammar, because the standards give you the minimum students should know. Then when they go to grade a paper they mark students for grammar mistakes making them feel insecure or unintelligent. If you don’t teach it they shouldn’t be expected to know it. Sometimes teachers forget that students are still in the learning process of writing and “don’t consider whether we’re giving students training wheels or just putting sticks in their spokes” (Bunting 1999). Bunting believes grammar is worth teaching, not because it will help so much make someone a better writer, but because it is worth knowing about. “We need to teach grammar not as something to hate or even as something to learn as a means end, but as a complex system to be discovered and explored for its own sake” (Bunting 1999). Her argument is that grammar doesn’t seem to help students become better writers because the way it’s being taught is only teaching them to hate writing. There are different aspects to grammar that can help writing and parts that can hurt it.

To answer RQ1, the perceptions of grammar in speaking from both NS teacher and NNS students have to be found by analyzing the answers from the interview Q2, Q4 and Q5. The results show that, in terms of the perceptions towards grammar in speaking, NS teacher do differ from NNS students. NS teacher’s answer shows that grammar was very important in speaking, during the interview, when she was asked about Q4, she said: