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Using Textbook Grammar Activities
Textbooks usually provide one or more of the following three types of grammar exercises.
Mechanical drills: Each prompt has only one correct response, and students can complete the exercise without attending to meaning. For example:
George waited for the bus this morning. He will wait for the bus tomorrow morning, too.
Meaningful drills: Each prompt has only one correct response, and students must attend to meaning to complete the exercise. For example:
Where are George’s papers? They are in his notebook.
(Students must understand the meaning of the question in order to answer, but only one correct answer is possible because they all know where George’s papers are.)

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  Communicative drills, described in Strategies for Learning Grammar
  
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  To use textbook grammar exercises effectively, instructors need to recognize which type they are, devote the appropriate amount of time to them, and supplement them as needed.
  

TESTING

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  What is grammar role in teaching foreign language?
  
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  What grammar minimums do you know?
  
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  What methods of teaching grammar do you know?
  
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  What grammar tasks and exercises are the most effective for teaching grammar?
  
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  What is teaching grammar in context?
  

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LECTURE 10. PRACTICE AND ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING GRAMMAR IN FLTM FOR ALL STAGES OF CONTINUOUS EDUCATION


Lecture outline:
2.1. Cognitive aspect of acquiring grammar
2.2. Selection of the grammar material
2.3. The ways of developing grammar skills
2.4. Principles of teaching grammar


Key words: cognitive aspect, the grammar side of the speech, acquiring grammar acts, studying/learning ready material, mastering grammar generalizations, abstractions defining language situations, studying/learning ready material, mastering grammar generalizations, active grammar minimum.