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Date Posted: 14:41:41 10/09/05 Sun
Author: Poliana Ramos Netto
Subject: FINAL VERSION: 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

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.
When Westney states that, he recognises that grammar indeed has an important role in the language process: syntactic, morphological or phonological features (just to mention some) really impose restrictions to a sentence formulation and can never be ignored. Thus, Westney does not discuss if t is necessary or not to present grammar in the classroom; he is more interested in how to present grammar. 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). 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. (Westney, 1994).

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