Grammar

Do we need to study grammar to learn a language? The answer is yes, when you are learning a   new language because grammar can help you to learn more quickly and more efficiently. But talking about first language the answer is no. Chomsky “believes that every child has a ‘language acquisition device’ or LAD which encodes the major principles of a language and its grammatical structures into the child’s brain.” (Chomsky)  This is  why children start to speak before they even know the word grammar. However it is important because Grammar is present everywhere at any time when we speak or write something. For this reason we have to know what grammar is. Grammar is how we organize words, parts of words, and group of words to have meaning. We use grammar unconsciously when we speak, listen, read, and write something with different purposes.  We can identify grammatical forms in parts of speech. In English we can find nine parts of speech. E.g. noun, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and exclamations. These words describe how words behave in sentences. We can combine these words grammatically to convey meaning, but the meaning comes from the context. I as future teacher I should use grammar to explain the parts of speech and how students can use them. Nowadays, language teaching focuses on functions, language skills, fluency and communication. In Scott Thornbury´s book “How to teach grammar?”  (Thornbury) Teaches us about the way grammar could be taught and  how it should be used according teacher and students´ needs.

Bibliography:

Chomsky, N. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://aggslanguage.wordpress.com/chomsky/

Thornbury, S. (n.d.). amazon. Retrieved from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Thornbury/e/B001ITVU2.

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