Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons outlines an alternative approach to teaching grammar in the language classroom. Rather than just considering the standard rules of grammar, it explores what speakers and writers of English actually do with grammar. It then considers how students can be guided to discover what those speakers and writers mean.This book offers you lesson materials, systematic lesson procedures, and discovery techniques. It also explores replication activities that you can incorporate into a syllabus and use as demonstration lessons.Teaching Grammar: From Rules to Reasons aims to:help teachers to develop their knowledge of grammarprovide a source of grammar lessonsinstigate new ways of planning and organising lessons.
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11. Why focus on grammar in the language classroom?2. The use of
grammar rules3. From rules to reasonsSection
21. Teaching resources2.
Creating your own resourcesSection
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32. Teacher's notes3.
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Danny Norrington-Davies is a teacher and teacher trainer. He began teaching in 1993 in Botswana and now works for International House and King's College in London.As a language teacher, his interests are grammar, materials development, emerging language, critical thinking and visualisation, and he is a member of the C Group, an independent and informal grouping of ELT professionals which aims collaboratively to share information, promote reflection and inquiry, and encourage action through more creative teaching practices. Danny also enjoys attending and speaking at conferences and has published articles for The Teacher Trainer, Folio and HLT magazine. This is his first book.