Main Schools of Grammar, Grammar in Schools and Pedagogical Grammar

Grammar schools and social mobility

a comparative study of bilingual schools and language institutes: examining iranian efl students’ knowledge of listening, reading grammar and vocabulary

هدف از پژوهش حاضر مقایسه زبان آموزان مدارس دوزبانه و موسسات آموزش زبان انگلیسی به منظور تعیین هر گونه تفاوت معنادار در مهارت های درک مطلب، درک شنیداری، دانش دستوری و دانش واژگان است. اطلاعات لازم برای این پژوهش از مجموعه 197 نفر دانش آموز پسر در مدارس دوزبانه و موسسات آموزش زبان جمع آوری شده است. تمامی شرکت کنندگان به مدت چهار الی پنج سال در کلاس های زبان انگلیسی شرکت کرده اند. به منظور جمع آور...

Psychiatric Aid in the Grammar Schools

a weekly football match or of the meeting of the Current Affairs Society?some yearly products of school-leaving fifth and sixth formers enter life hopelessly unequipped, hesitating and bewildered. The picture will, no doubt, raise an indignant protest from the complacent senior member of the Common Room and a doubting look on the face of the eager novice who is only too willing to change and im...

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...

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...