Session 2 Week 3
Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary
The somewhat controversial role of grammar teaching has received more attention in recent years. Likewise, there has been a renewed interest in the nature of vocabulary and its role in learning and teaching. This session will review recent research on the teaching of grammar and vocabulary. It will deal with questions of what grammar to teach and how to teach it, considering inductive and deductive approaches in an attempt to address the central challenge of how to focus on grammar without sacrificing a focus on meaning. Systematic and incidental approaches to teaching vocabulary will be covered and the implications of a ‘lexical approach’ in ESOL will be considered.
Pre-reading Questions
1. Do learners have to consciously know the rules of grammar?
2. How do teachers select what grammar to teach and how do they decide how to sequence the grammar they teach?
3. Should all vocabulary learning be in context or is it possible to deliberately learn decontextualised words?
Key concepts
Consciousness raising Noticing Focus on forms and focus on form
Inductive v deductive approaches The lexical approach
Concordancers and grammar teaching Incidental and intentional vocabulary teaching
Session reading
Paltridge, B (2017) (particularly chapters 1,2 and 7)
Richards，英语毕业论文，英语论文 | 
