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Submitted by stu c on 14 July, 2009 - 17:07
How necessary is it for the teacher to have a knowledge of the grammar of the students' language or languages?
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How necessary is it for the teacher to have a knowledge of the grammar of the students' language or languages?
Both are the tools of an english teacher with out both, in this trend, one cannot make his stand in the english class.
In addition to knowing the 2 languages the teacher must be close to students and try to motive and to make them love the the taught language.
Grammar is essential to a teacher to teach the students well. If a teacher has no command over grammar he cannot train them in proper manner, and cannot correct his/her's mistake.
A teacher is a roll model of any student. If a teacher commits mistakes, automatically astudent will do the same.
When a teacher teaches, the student should be in a position to understand what teacher teaches. otherwise that class/lecture will be vain. so a teacher should know the standard of a student in grammar and follow in that path.
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I think your question pertains to whether teachers should know about the grammar of the students' native langauges? I can say from my own experience, that this is really useful because it sometimes helps to make sense of students' incorrect utterances. If you can speak their L1, then you will have a better idea of the causes of grammatical mistakes they make in English. That said, if you teach a multilingual group, it's obviously not realistic to expect the teacher to be aware of the grammars of all of the L1s represented. If you can't speak the L1 of some students, maybe you can look in "Learner English" by Swan, M. & Smith, B. They explain the most frequent errors made by speakers of certain L1s, so then you'd have the information without having to learn the languages yourself!!
CF