VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2], 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 19:28:15 06/13/07 Wed
Author: Marina Borges de Carvalho
Subject: Task four

The use of grammar in the classroom has been very discussed recently. To teach or not to teach. Because the way that is passed to the students is very tired and massive. Making the propose, which is “the control of theory makes a better practice”, get lost. But it doesn’t mean that because the propose is lost, that grammar doesn’t have to be passed to the student. So, as basis of all languages, grammar must be taught in the classroom as an important subject as vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.
As it, the grammar, is seeing on the high school, pushing rules, making people learn it by heart, is so wrong, and makes the student get far away from what it really is. Grammar is the basis of a language. The first or the second, it doesn’t matter which one, but when you speak, you are only putting in the daily journey what is writing on the theory book.
We have the principle of the language, which is the verbs and the nouns. A sentence is not simple words. Is a sequence made by words. Noun and verb and noun. Of course that this is only the basic principle of the language grammar. The student doesn’t need to get further on the grammar study, at least, if he/she doesn’t want to become a professional in this area.
So, what is grammar? Grammar is not the teaching of massive conjugation of subjunctive, or even the learn by heart of all the names a noun can have. But it is the learning of the basic sequence of a sentence, and also the basic conjugation of a verb, in the time that it is passing in the school period. Because a sentence needs it. Noun + verb + noun. And a conjugated verb.
That’s the reason grammar must be taught in the classroom. To get the propose, and to get it right. Because, it is the basis of a language. And is very important to know how to speak and to pass a message.
Even when you are passing the message with the wrong conjugation of the verb, you are using the grammar. The basic principle. So, a person cannot escape. Then, why don’t use the grammar in the right way? Or even know the basic principle, to, at least, know what and where is the mistake. For all those reasons, grammar must be taught. In the right way.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.