Alternative grammar teaching vs. traditional grammar teaching in Albanian tertiary education

Grammar Teaching Revisited: EFL Teachers between Grammar Abstinence and Formal Grammar Teaching

The study of English language teachers’ cognitions and its relationship to teachers’ classroom practices have recently been the focus of language teaching and teacher education (Borg, 2006 & 2010). However, rarely have the studies delved into teachers’ knowledge about grammar (reviewed by Borg, 2001) or investigated the relationships between teachers’ knowledge about grammar and teachers’ actio...

Language Theories and Language Teaching—from Traditional Grammar to Functionalism

linguistic theories have greatly influenced language teaching theories in whatever stage they have been. By reviewing the three main stages of linguistic theories that have existed until now in the history of linguistics, this article has generalized the language teaching theories and the classroom characters resulted

Teaching Grammar: Perspectives on Language Learning in Higher Education

Teaching ESL Grammar through Dictation

For a variety of theoretical and practical reasons, dictation is a promising general procedure for promoting both conscious learning and subconscious acquisition of L2 grammatical structures. Although traditional dictation tends to be rather boring, the method allows a number of interesting and motivating variant techniques. This article describes four such variants, useful and effective dictat...

Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing

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