On FL learners' Individual differences in grammar learning and their grammatical competence training

Abstract

In FL grammar teaching field, there are many researches concerning about students' English grammatical learning and grammatical competence improvement, but the previous researches are mainly about foreign language learners' grammar level as a whole, very few researches are about the individual differences in learners' grammatical knowledge acquisition and competence improvement. This paper analyzes the individual differences that influence FLlearners' grammar acquisition and grammatical competence improvement through interview, questionnaire and observation, four college students majoring in English participated in the study. Then, basing on the Study of FLlearners individual differences in grammar learning and the integration between explicit grammatical knowledge and implicit grammatical competence in grammar acquisition, this paper constructs an FLlearners' grammatical competence training model according to different students' individuality, aiming at narrowing down the gap between top students and ordinary students' grammatical competence in non-native context and the gap between FLlearners' English grammatical knowledge and their grammatical competence. The results, to a certain degree, will be beneficial to the improvement of FLgrammar teaching quality. © 2013 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland.