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Literal translation of Japanese
This a book is. 
pproaches to teaching English, all textbooks, and all EFL/ESL teachers, deal one way or another with 
aching of English grammar as it is defined by linguists-the words of English and their combinations. 
t thing for you to remember is that grammar in an EFL/ESL context is quite different from the 
rammar you knew and loved (or didn't love) in school. 
rammar aspects of major approaches to language teaching 
This section will give examples of textbooks written within the three broad categories of language-teaching 
approaches discussed in Chapter Two and show how grammar is dealt with in each approach. Each 
example is an excerpt showing only the grammar presentation aspects of the lesson. In all three examples 
the same grammar point is taught, the sentence pattern "This is a ___." You will he able to see the 
differences in the way the three approaches teach the same feature. 
 Traditional grammar translation method