SubjectsSubjects(version: 945)
Course, academic year 2023/2024
   Login via CAS
Grammar in ELT - AAA500139
Title: Grammar in ELT
Guaranteed by: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 20 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=634
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PhDr. Tomáš Gráf, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Tomáš Gráf, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Tomáš Gráf, Ph.D. (21.04.2018)
The course aims to introduce the current research-based and practice-approved approaches to the teaching of grammar in ELT on the background of the many turbulent periods it has been through in the past decades. It briefly outlines key points and issues in the history of grammar teaching with the aim to develop the understanding of the status quo. Subsequently, it introduces the key concerns of language teachers as regards grammar teaching and presents up-to-date response to them along with the presentation of key techniques which ought to form the teachers' repertoire. The course advocates principled and informed grammar teaching which sees grammar as a tool in communication and conveying meaning, and the teaching of grammar as a complex decision-making process which ought to form an essential component of any foreign language course. However, it promotes the finding of balance between the teaching of grammar per se and other activities aimed at the development of communication skills.
Each session of the course contains three subparts: the first part introduces relevant theoretical concepts, the second part focuses on the discussion of short texts which the participants are expected to peruse before each session, and the third part is dedicated to active practice of grammar teaching techniques (micro-teaching) and the discussion of the processes involved in the planning and delivering of grammar-based lessons of English as a foreign language.
The course will be delivered in English. The participants will be expected to read a selection of short texts and be prepared to discuss these in class. They will also be asked to participate in short, teaching expositions (micro-teaching) during which they will present a short grammar lesson of a selected feature of English grammar or demonstrate useful techniques.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D. (25.09.2020)

All of the credit requirements must be fulfilled by the end of the exam period in the academic year in which the student enrolled for the subject.

Účast je povinná, povoleny jsou dvě absence za semestr. Větší počet absencí v průběhu pandemických opatření musí být nahrazen prací navíc individuálně zadávanou vyučujícím. 
 
Literature -
Last update: PhDr. Tomáš Gráf, Ph.D. (28.10.2019)

Essential literature:

  

Keck, C.M. and Y. Kim (2014) Pedagogical grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

 

Nassaji, H. (2011). Teaching grammar in second language classrooms: integrating form-focused instruction in communicative context. New York: Routledge.

 

Scrivener, J. (2010). Teaching English grammar: what to teach and how to teach it. Oxford: Macmillan Education.

 

 

Supplementary literature: 

 

Carter, R. (2006). Cambridge grammar of English: a comprehensive guide: spoken and written English grammar and usage. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Norrington-Davis, D. (2016) From rules to reason, Hove: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd.

 

Hinkel, E. (ed.) (2016) Teaching English grammar to speakers of other languages. London: Routledge

 

Larsen-Freeman, D. (2003). Teaching language: from grammar to grammaring. Boston: Thomson/Heinle.

 

Thornbury, S. (1999). How to teach grammar. Harlow, England: Pearson Education.

 

Thornbury, S. (2006). Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Weaver, C. (1996). Teaching grammar in context. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.

 

 

+ selected articles from ELT Journal, TESOL Quarterly, English Teaching Professional and Modern English Teacher

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: PhDr. Tomáš Gráf, Ph.D. (28.09.2020)

Credit requirements (applicable also to online teaching)
- attendance (max. 2 unexcused absences)
- preparation for the theoretical parts of the seminars  - reading and discussion of the prescribed studies/materilas, preparing presentations
- preparation fot the workshops - preparing lesson plans for the selected aspects of grammar, presentation of techniques
- participation in the evaluation of lesson plans
- error analysis of a short sample of spontaneous learner language production 

Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Tomáš Gráf, Ph.D. (28.09.2020)

Syllabus for the online format of the course in winter term 2020/21

Seminar 1 – Introductory seminar (to teach or not to teach grammar, what is grammar teaching, what grammar teachers do and wtaht they ought to know, grammar in curricular documents, what grammar to teach)
Seminar 2 – Acquisition of grammar; textbooks, materials and ICT in grammar teaching
Seminar 3 – Essential concepts and theories for grammar teaching
Seminar 4 – Techniques for teaching grammar
Seminar 5 – Dealing with errors and feedback; designing practice materials
Seminar 6 – Lesson plans in teaching grammar
Seminar 7 – Presentation week 1 (3 students presenting lesson plans and materials + feedback)
Seminar 8 – Presentation week 2 (3 students presenting lesson plans and materials + feedback)
Seminar 9 – Presentation week 3 (3 students presenting lesson plans and materials + feedback)
Seminar 10 – Presentation week 4 (3 students presenting lesson plans and materials + feedback)
Seminar 11 – Testing and assessing grammar
Seminar 12 – Learner language analysis 1 – analysing accuracy
Seminar 13 – Learner language analysis 2 – research methods and key findings

 
Charles University | Information system of Charles University | http://www.cuni.cz/UKEN-329.html