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Grammar for Young Learners

TSL 3108 TEACHING OF GRAMMAR IN THE PRIMARY ESL CLASSROOM

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Overview

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Defining Grammar and Young Learners.

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Views on Grammar for Young Learners.

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DEFINING GRAMMAR AND YOUNGLEARNERS

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Grammar

grammar is partly the study of what forms are

possible. Basically, a language consists words and

sounds (when spoken). This can be analyzed at

each of the four levels; text, sentence, word and

sound. These are the forms that they take. A

study of grammar looks at the way these forms arearranged and patterned.

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Young Learners

Sarah Phillips (1993:5) in the introduction to her

book 'Young Learners' describes Young

Learners as...

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children from the first year of formal schooling (five or

six years old) to eleven or twelve years of age.

However, as any children's teacher will know, it is not

so much the children's age that counts in the classroom

as how mature they are.

There are many factors that influence children's

maturity:

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VIEWS ON GRAMMAR FOR YOUNGLEARNERS

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H. D. Brown, 2007

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STEPHEN KRASHENS VIEW

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In Short

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Grammar for young learners should involveexplicit and implicit feedback.

Learning should be meaningful with low

anxiety level. Activities should be interesting and cater for

the short attention span within young

learners.

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Thats all!