What’s Your Grammar Teaching/Learning Style?
OPENING TASK –HOW DID YOU LEARN GRAMMAR?
WARM-UP & INTRODUCTION
Take a few minutes to reflect on how you learned grammar for a foreign language or
to excel in language arts and see how this influences how you teach grammar today.
A. What did you usually do to learn grammar? Read each statement and say how
often you did each of these things.
1=never
2=sometimes
3=often
1. If I didn’t understand a new grammar point, I…
a. Looked it up in a grammar book.
b. Looked it up on the Internet.
c. Asked my teacher.
d. Asked the smartest student in the class.
4=always
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2. If I wanted
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to practice a new grammar point, I…
wrote some example sentences.
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tried to use it in conversation.
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looked for examples in a reading passage or dictionary
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d. diligently completed assigned homework exercises. 1
3. In order to improve my grammar, I…
a. asked my teacher to correct my mistakes.
b. asked my friends to correct my mistakes.
c. didn’t worry about mistakes.
d. Asked a native speaker.
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4. I preferred to practice new grammar by…
a. working in pairs or a group with classmates.
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b. studying grammar charts and grammar explanations.
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c. Applying new grammar by making my own examples in a writing or reading
activity
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Complete the following sentence:
a. My favorite language teacher__________________________________
How do your students like to learn grammar?
B. Now take a few minutes to reflect on how your students like to learn grammar.
Read each statement and say how often they do each of these things.
1=never
2=rarely
3=sometimes 4=often
5=always
1. If my students don’t understand a new grammar point, they…
a. look it up in their grammar text. 1
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b. look it up on the internet
or interactive CD ROM
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c. ask me to explain the grammar point more clearly
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d. ask the smartest grammar student in the class 1
2. If my students want to practice a new grammar point, they…
a. write some example sentences 1
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b. try to use it in conversation
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c. look for examples in a reading passage, dictionary
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d. diligently complete grammar exercises for homework
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3. In order to improve their grammar, my students…
a. Ask me to correct their mistakes
b. Ask their friends to correct their mistakes
c. Don’t worry about mistakes
d. Ask another native speaker
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4. My students prefer to practice new grammar by…
a. listening to or reading a passage that focuses on the target structure
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b. working in pairs or small groups to apply structure to task-based activites
(completion, ask, answer,etc.)
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c. working with the target structure, then studying the rules and explanations
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Step 2. Compare your answers with another participant.
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