Grammar for Teachers Andrea DeCapua Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers Author Andrea DeCapua‚ Ed.D. College of New Rochelle New Rochelle‚ NY 10805 adecapua@cnr.edu ISBN: 978-0-387-76331-6 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-76332-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937636 c 2008 Springer Science+Business Media‚ LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the
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a job. If poor grammar is inhibiting students from getting a job after college‚ grammatical principles of writing should be more heavily emphasized within the college curriculum. But‚ do employers even care about the level of grammatical ability their applicants have? To find the answer to this question‚ it was important to consider how employers in the professional world feel about grammatical ability and how it varies from profession to profession. Reading articles about grammar in the workplace
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What is Grammar? & Language Awareness Learning grammar in school was particularly a good experience for me. I had the privilege to have a wonderful English grammar teacher named Mrs. Rivera. I’d like to mention that I’ve lived in Puerto Rico for all of my life (recently moved to Chile) and Spanish is the main language spoken in the island. English is taught mainly as a second language in most schools around the country. Despite that fact‚ English wasn’t my native language. I learned it thanks
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PARTICIPANT’S GUIDE What have I done in my own classroom lately? 1. List what you have done to teach a grammar or mechanics pattern/skill in your own classroom. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Did you thoroughly share many correct models of the skill‚ both visually and verbally? _____________________________
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CHAPTER II: THE GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD APPROCH | DESING | PRODUCERES | TEORYES OF LANGUAGE: * Translation of the foreign language to first language. * Read and appreciate foreign language literature | OBJETIC:A fundamental purpose of learning a foreign language is to be able to read literature written in the target language. To do this students need to learn about the grammar rules and vocabulary of the target language.It is believed that studying a foreign language provides students
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PAPER 6 (DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS) STRUCTURAL GRAMMAR Broadly speaking any grammar in which there is an attempt to describe the structure of grammatical sentences is structural grammar. But the term has come to refer more narrowly to the type of grammar brought to its maximum development in the early 1950’s by such men like C. C. Fries and Zelling Harris. Structural grammar in this sense is characterized by the procedure known as substitution‚ by which word class membership is established and by which
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Record is a good example to illustrate it. In order to solve this puzzling question I carefully study The A.P.A (The International Phonetic Alphabets) which helps me pronounce English words correctly. In order to have an accent just like the native speakers‚ I often listen to tapes and repeat after them‚ trying to imitate them. Moreover‚ my everyday conversation with the foreigners I meet in the street will enable me to acquire a proper accent. Compared with French‚ English grammar is much easier
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Методичні вказівки до організації і проведення самостійної роботи з курсу «Теоретична граматика англійської мови» для студентів ІV курсу англійської філології Самостійна робота |№ |Назва теми |Кількість | |з/п |
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Some misconceptions about communicative language teaching Geoff Thompson ELT Journal Volume 50/1 January 1996‚ pp. 9 - 15 Although communicative language teaching is accepted by many applied linguists and teachers as the most effective approach among those in general use‚ there are still a number of misconceptions about what it involves. This article sets out four of the main misconceptions‚ discusses why they have arisen‚ and why they can be so described. In doing this‚ the article attempts to
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the word ‘Grammar’ is (the study or use of) the rules about how words change their form and combine with other words to make sentences. Grammar is divided into phonology (systematic organization of sounds in languages)‚ morphology (the study and description of how words are formed)‚ syntax (the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed)‚ semantics (the ways in which sounds and meanings are related) and lexicon (the mental dictionary of words). Without grammar‚ language
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