Teaching Language from Grammar to Grammaring

Teaching Language from Grammar to Grammaring

A must-read for every language teaching professional, Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring explores the regular, predictable elements of language as well as the potential creativity of its underlying system. By combining a wide range of view points with her own personal experiences and studies, Diane Larsen-Freeman challenges the static descriptive ideas of grammar, based on rules, and promotes the more fluid and dynamic notions of reason-driven grammaring, which she defines as “the ability to use grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.” The reader is left not with an encyclopedic set of definitions, but rather with a deeper understanding of the organic nature of language and its acquisition, and a honed set of tools with which to approach language in language teaching.

• Examines the issues of teaching language from three distinct perspectives: Teachers’ Voices, which are authentic accounts of teachers’ experiences; Frameworks, which are comprehensive discussions of theoretical issues; and Investigations, which are inquiry-based activities.

Language: US

Level: Native Speaker / Teacher

EBA | 428.071

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