New perspectives on grammar teaching in second language classrooms /

New perspectives on grammar teaching in second language classrooms / - Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2002. - viii, 272 pages : illustrations ; - ESL and applied linguistics professional series. .

Introduction--From theory to practice : a teacher's view -- The place of grammar instruction in the second/foreign language curriculum / Rod Ellis -- Accuracy and fluency revisited / Jack C. Richards -- Ten criteria for a spoken grammar / Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter -- Grammar and communication : new directions in theory and practice / Martha C. Pennington -- The grammar of choice / Diane Larsen-Freeman -- Why it makes sense to teach grammar in context and through discourse / Marianne Celce-Murcia -- Structure-based interactive tasks for the EFL grammar learner / Sandra Fotos -- Methodological options in grammar teaching materials / Rod Ellis -- Grammar teaching in writing classes : tenses and cohesion / Eli Hinkel -- Relative clause reduction in technical research articles / Peter Master -- Why English passive is difficult to teach (and learn) / Eli Hinkel.

Brings together various approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar & communicative skills as integrated components of second-language instruction. Purpose of the text is to show that grammar teaching can be productive & useful in ESL classroom

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Language and languages.
Grammar, Comparative and general.

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