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Date Posted: 04:52:22 10/07/05 Fri
Author: Aline de Paula Alves
Subject: Re: Citing Resources: Teaching Grammar Meaningfully
In reply to: Poliana Ramos Netto 's message, "Citing Resources: Teaching Grammar Meaningfully" on 17:34:18 10/05/05 Wed

Hi, Poliana.
I think you have done a great job. The paragraph is very well written and the ideas are also well presented.

I was wondering if it wouldn't be better if you wrote,
" ...it can never be ignored" instead of "...it can be never ignored".

"...has an important role in the language..." instead of "...has an importance in the language process."

When you used ( ; ) in this sentence "Thus, Westney (1994) is more interested in how to present sentence grammar; rules are supposed to follow..." I hesitated, wondering if it means something like "and" or "furthermore", if it could be an ordinary ( , ) ...it may not influence the understanding of the paragraph but you could work on that detail.

Cheers,
Aline




>Yet, when talking about grammar it is inevitable to
>mention the work of Westney (1994), who has an
>interesting thesis about grammar and rules. According
>to him, there is a pedagogical grammar, that is, a
>grammar for learners. Understanding that grammar and
>rules are such intriguing issues he advises “learners
>and teachers to assume a cautious, if not skeptical,
>attitude towards any pedagogical treatment of language
>regularities.” (Westney, 1994, p. 73). However, when
>he states that he is not discussing if it is necessary
>or not to present grammar in the classroom. Grammar
>indeed has an importance in the language process.
>Syntactic, morphological or phonological features
>(just to mention some) really impose restrictions to a
>sentence formulation and can be never ignored. Thus,
>Westney (1994) is more interested in how to present
>grammar; rules are supposed to follow some criteria to
>be considered pedagogical and one of the most
>important is that rules should clarify and not cause
>confusion to learners.

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  • Re: Citing Resources: Teaching Grammar Meaningfully -- Giovanna Ferreira Mendes Avelar de Pinho, 09:31:49 10/08/05 Sat
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