“…There are lots of discussions and comparisons (Richards & Rodgers, 1986) about structuralism (Chomsky,1957)andsocio-culturaltheoriesaboutlanguageteaching andlearningapproaches (Searle,1969;Hymes,1972;Gumperz,1972;Hallidayand Hasan,1976;Widdowson,1978;Vygotsky,1986)inlanguageteaching.Strucutralists focusonlanguageform.Alanguagecontainsasetofrules,rulesofpronunciation, rulesofgrammar,etc.Learningofalanguagemeansunderstandingandproducingthe languageaccordingtotheserules.Teacherstakingthisviewwillconsideraccuracyand correctnessasthemainfocusinclassroomactivities.Teachingmaterialsdevelopedin 19 th to20 th centuryreflectedthatteachingCantoneseatthatperiodmainlyfocusedon grammaticalcorrectness (Lobscheid,1864;Ball,1883;O'Melia,1938;Chao,1947;Lee,1950;Whitaker,1954;Lung,1965;Lau,1972aLau, ,1972bLau, ,1975HuangandKwok, 1973aHuangandKwok, ,1973b.Afteroneoftheearlydictionaries,entitledVocabulary of the Canton Dialect, complied by Robert Morrison in 1827, teaching materials were started to developmentforlearnersofCantoneseasasecondlanguageinGuangzhou(Canton) andinHongKong. Lobscheid(1864)andBall(1883)emphasizedthatlexicalitems shouldbeputingrammatical"contexts"andstartedtoformulatesyntacticrules.For examples, Ball (1883) demonstrated Cantonese reflexive pronoun jihgéi (~self) in phraselevelandsentencelevelsyntax.…”