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Grammar in isolation vs grammar in context
1. Grammar in Isolation
vs Grammar
in Context
Amos Tan Rurng Jang
Al Samihah Amni bt Dollah @ Abdul Aziz
Munirah bt Hashim
2. Grammar in Isolation
• Teaching separately in a lesson
• Focus on form and meaning only
• Language learning
• Exercise : repetition, manipulation, grammatical
transformation
• Prescriptive/descriptive approaches
3. • To understand grammatical forms and be able to
use them
• Cover the ability to understand grammatical
forms
• Cover the ability to use these grammatical forms
for communicative purpose
4. The purpose for using grammar in
isolation
• To identify students’ own performance
• It helps teacher to set the level and make
improvement on the next lesson
• To make sure pupils recognize the rules and
regulation of grammar
• Ex : past tense, present tense, irregular verbs.
5. • Teacher can selectively choose which grammar
items to cover in this grammar course, so that
the instruction can be effectively focused on
items that are more important.
• Give teachers as well as learners plenty of time
to understand the grammatical forms and
produce them in communication tasks
6. Issues
• Confusing
• Grammar is about rules of language : pupils
become bored and stress (they have to
memorize directly)
• Not enjoying
• Students could not connect the grammar with
their language or the lessons with their lives
7. How to overcome
• Fun activities
• Choose effective methods
• Make discussion
• Activities related with daily situation
8. Grammar in context
• involves teaching grammar in relations to the
context of the situation the utterances are
usually used
• Focus on forms, meaning and usage
• Language acquisition
• Requires commitment to teach
• Specific instruction would be given to individual
students
9. • Applicable while teaching other skills
• Eg: listening, writing, reading, speaking and
language arts.
• Teaching grammar in context provides a
meaningful framework that connects to reality
in the targeted language‖ (Anderson, 2005).
• An approach through which learners can learn
how to form structures correctly, and also how
to use them to communicate meaning (Nunan,
1998, p.103)
• Learners will use grammatical conventions more
effectively in communication if they learn them
in context.
10. HOW TO TEACH GRAMMAR IN
CONTEXT
• Example : using dialogues --> the use of
dialogues generally matches learners‘
expectations of how language is used in the real
world: people use language primarily to talk to
each other‖ (Thornbury, 1999, p.76).
