6 - Teaching grammar

“… everything speakers know about their language”

• Phonology

• Semantics

• Morphology

• Syntax

• Lexicon

1. Exposure

2. Notice

3. Understand

4. Try things out

5. Use

6. Remember

• analyze chunks and generalize from them

• structural basis of a language

• not all features from L1 can be picked up

• lexis = more important/powerful

• learning grammar doesn’t necessarily lead to acquisition

• communciation = more important powerful

• Comprehensability (e.g. negation -> major difference in understanding)

• Acceptability (e.g. politeness -> bc crucial)

• Scope(Bereiche) (e.g. regular/irregular verbs)

• Frequency (e.g. things that are quiet regular should be taught!)

• Relevance (do speakers use it?)

exposure, noticing, understanding

• consciousness-raising

• inductive/dedcutive

• implicit/explicit

-> start with rule

-> start with example

-> suggestive method, inducing rules through communicative use of language

-> explanation of language rules/structure