Challenges the traditional view of grammar as a thing to be learned, suggesting it is a process that emerges.Shows how to create the right conditions for students to uncover grammar.Suggests ways of creating awareness-raising tasks to help students acquire grammar, using extracts from real classroom exchanges, authentic texts and language-teaching texts to demonstrate the theory.Provides a wide range of practical ideas, activities and photocopiable resources for classroom use.
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The book uses extracts from exchanges in real classrooms, authentic texts and language teaching tasks. It provides lots of practical activities so that you can immediately and easily put the ideas to work in your classroom. Also, suggests ways of creating awareness-raising tasks to help students acquire grammar.
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Uncovering Grammar helps you understand the way grammar functions in language. The task sheets help you and your students understand the processes of grammar in language acquisition. It explains why it is more useful to think about how we 'uncover' grammar, to reveal the workings of the system to our students and encourage them to notice what is going on.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781405080064
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
Macmillan Education
Vekt
10000 gr
Høyde
245 mm
Bredde
190 mm
Dybde
8 mm
Aldersnivå
LS, 07
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128

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Scott Thornbury teaches on the on-line MA TESOL program at the New School, New York. He has also taught and trained in Spain (where he lives), Egypt, the UK and in his native New Zealand. His present interests include discourse and corpus analysis, classroom interaction, second language emergence and critical pedagogy. You can follow his current thoughts on his Blog at www.scotthornbury.wordpress.com