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“The best way to teach grammar” is a controversial topic.

Views range from the belief that a focus on grammar is detrimental to developing learners’ communicative competence, to concerns that without an overt focus on form the target language can never be learnt effectively.

Indeed some of the language involved in talking about grammar seems to be dominated by opposites: product v process; grammar translation v communicative methodology; inductive v deductive; accuracy v fluency and so on.

So how can teachers decide which approach is best? As is often the case, they may be constrained by the approach in their textbook or the expectations of their schools, learners or learners’ parents.

In this workshop we will explore how grammar teaching can be effective in all teaching contexts by developing learners’ ‘noticing’ skills and integrating ‘noticing’ tasks with existing resources and approaches.

Audience

• minimum B1 level
• primary
• secondary
• tertiary
• adults

Time

This teacher training workshop would take approximately 90 minutes to run.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• discuss teachers’ approaches to teaching grammar
• define what is involved in ‘noticing’
• distinguish between tasks which practice grammatical structures and tasks which encourage noticing them
• modify typical textbook grammar exercises to provide practice in developing noticing skills
• present ideas for modifying tasks to peers
• reflect on learning from this workshop.

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