The Communicative Approaches Revisited and the Relevance of Teaching Grammar

Abstract

The field of English as a second language has gone through a number of changes in the last decades and has seen extreme adjustments throughout the methods of teaching and curriculum planning. This article finds the relevance of the old methods to the new methods. After providing the background it becomes apparent that almost all the older methods have some relevance to the contemporary classroom and linguists are reaching out and calling on teachers to use the old techniques alongside the new techniques. Emphasis in this article, however, is put on the relevance of introducing grammar to the learner, what to introduce, how and when is discussed in light what we know of the communicative.

The Role of Teaching Grammar in First Language Education

“…Within the grammar learning domain it was determined that the children did not have much trouble with acquiring skills regarding syntax, however he allocated time for the subject within the program, the child must be introduced examples in which inverted sentence structures are used more often. Majorly trusting grammar is correct in language production however concentrating on the students that have deficiencies in terms of the cultural and pragmatic side of the language; since concentrating on communication majorly will cause the students who possess fossilized errors be defined as successful students, contemporary education style including programs must be in an eclectic structure (Ahmed & Alamin, 2012).…”

Digital Visual Grammar Concept Map Facilitated EFL Holistic Grammar Comprehension

“…While audiolingual approach and communicative language teaching approach have been thoroughly discussed (Fries, 1945;Halliday, 1973;Khan, 2011;Ahmed & Alamin, 2012), we will explore an online concept map as a tool for acquiring/learning English grammar (Oluikpe, 2014). Novak and Gowing (1984) was the first to introduce concept mapping as a learning tool and it was used in various fields (Liu P.-L. , 2011;Liu C.-C. , Chen, Shih, Huang, & Liu, 2011;Machado & Carvalho, 2020).…”