New perspectives on grammar teaching in second language classrooms /

Contributor(s): Hinkel, Eli. (Editor) | Fotos, Sandra. (Editor)Material type: TextTextSeries: ESL and applied linguistics professional seriesPublication details: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2002Description: viii, 272 pages : illustrationsISBN: 9780805839555; 0805839550 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Language and languages | Grammar, Comparative and generalDDC classification: 418.007 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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