A project for On-line Grammar Test

Assessment can be done in different styles. Testing is only one of them. When tests are used in assessment, great care must be taken when we design test formats and items. The On-line Test Project is to create some tests for the potential learners. Firstly, please choose the language level of your students and decide the discrete-items your group is going to test your students. Then, each member should design one test format for the grammar items. (The ACT's ESL Placement Test and the project of The Internet TESL Journal are samples for your reference.) We are looking forward to reading your On-line Test!

Teaching and Learning Grammar from Internet Resources

Please Surf on Internet and recommend at least five websites about the resources of Grammar Learning and/or Teaching to your classmates and ESL learners. You should define your viewers/learners and give your reasons with site annotation for the web evaluation .

What is an appropriate attitude in responding to grammar errors?

How do you respond students' errors? Please share your ideas here!

Teach Grammar Through Texts

What are advantages and problems of using certain type of texts to teach grammar? Analyze and evaluate at least three text-based presentation to discuss the issue.

Deductive Approach VS. Inductive Approach

After viewing the teaching presentation, which group does E-factor and A-factor in the practicum? Which approach do you think is efficient for grammar teaching? What do you learn from the activity?

About the Course

@Who is the course for?

Welcome to take the course ENGLISH GRAMMAR FOR TEACHING!
This course is for students who are curious or confused or unconvinced about the teaching of grammar. It is also for prospective and trainee teachers who would like to continue learning and exploring the English grammar for their future career.

@ What is the course about?
Assuming that students have a good basic knowledge of general English and are interested in the teaching and learning English, the semester course is designed to prepare them working in the TESOL field. Thus, the course aims

1. To explore the relationships among language forms, language learning and language teaching, and
2. To develop students’ knowledge and understanding of English grammar, and
3. To introduce practical and effective strategies for teaching various aspects of grammar, and
4. To judge the efficiency and appropriacy of any approaches to teach English grammar.

Providing theoretical definitions and practical exercises, the web-based course will focus on the following issues: what grammar is and what it does, the roles of grammar in EFL/ESL Teaching, the differences between descriptive and prescriptive grammar, pedagogical and transformational grammar, different approaches and error analysis in grammar teaching, the types of grammar tests in language assessment, and the possible integration of grammar teaching into a communicative curriculum. A number of grammar activities will be reviewed in the course, of course.

Forum for GT

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