CURRENT APPROACHES TO GRAMMAR TEACHING

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review new trends in teaching grammar at the secondary school level. With new developments in the fields of linguistics and psychology which resulted in the shift from structurally-dominated English-as-a-foreign-language methodology to a more communicatively-oriented one, new ideas have prevailed in language teaching in general and grammar instruction in particular. As a result, there has been a gathering momentum for a communicatively-based approach to grammar instruction that is more meaning-focused than rules-focused and is more learner-centered than subject-oriented. Current research strongly supports the need for provision of communicative opportunities containing instructed grammar forms\r