How is Pedagogical Grammar Defined in Current TESOL Training Practice?

Lfg as a Pedagogical Grammar

The paper describes a presentation format of grammatical information for language teaching. c-structures and f-structures are represented as graphical annotation to a text. It is advocated that LFG-like concepts are preferable to traditional grammar rules. After an anti-grammar movement in the 1980s we can recognize today a resurgence of interest in the role of grammar in language teaching (Hed...

Theories of grammar and their influence on teaching practice: Examining language teachers’ beliefs

Teacher language awareness and its relationship to pedagogical practice (Andrews, 2003) have been identified as significant contributors to the teaching of grammar. Various TESOL programs teach pedagogical and theoretical grammar in different ways and some focus on specific approaches to grammar teaching, which include systemic functional grammar, transformational grammar, traditional grammar a...

Applying Cognitive Grammar to Pedagogical Grammar: The Case of “To”

In foreign language pedagogy, promoting learner’s insight means reducing the perceived arbitrariness of the foreign language system. The learner perceives something as arbitrary if he/she can see no reason why it should be as it is. For this reason, it is not enough to merely inform the learner that a particular element belongs to a given formal category and not to another. Rather, we need to e...

Interactive pedagogical programs based on constraint grammar

This article presents a set of interactive parser-based CALL programs for North Sámi. The programs are based on a finite state morphological analyser and a constraint grammar parser which is used for syntactic analysis and navigating in the dialogues. The analysers provide effective and reliable handling of a wide variety of user input. In addition, relaxation of the grammatical analysis of the...

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