教育教学论文 The Importance of Teaching Grammar in the Middle School.doc

The Importance of Teaching Grammar in the Middle School 四川雅安市汉源县第二中学 张蓉 Abstract: In the recent decades, educators emphasize Communication Teaching, ignoring grammar teaching. This paper will show that teaching grammar is very important. Teaching grammar is of great value. So we should know the reasons why we should teach grammar, and know the ways how to teach grammar. Key words: grammar, method, teaching, inductive, deductive In the 19th century, some famous linguistics such as Gouin tried to build a methodology around observation of child language learning. They advocated a “natural” method. It is that teachers should make attempts to make students learn second language more like first language. “Rather than using analytical procedures that focus on explanation of grammar rules in classroom teaching, teachers must encourage direct and spontaneous use of the foreign language in the classroom. Learners would then be able to induce rules if grammar.” (Richards Rodgers 2000 : 9) . This method is called the Direct Method. I think this method which is not allowed to teach grammar is absolute in teaching English. Teaching grammar systemically is very important in English study, especially in teaching Junior Senior students. I. the reasons of teaching grammar “Grammar is a system of rules governing the conventional arrangement and relationship of words in a sentence ” (Brown 2001: 34). So, if we want to grasp language and use it well, we need have a good knowledge of grammar except vocabulary. We study English in order to use it to communicate with others, for example, cultural transmission from generation to generation, the spread of commerce throughout the world. Even though some people think grammar is no longer needed in a CLT(Communication Language Teaching) framework, “grammatical competence occupies a prominent position as a major competence of communicative competence. Organizational competence is an intricate, c