Comments on grammar ppt -- Discourse and Grammar

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Date Posted: 13:43:13 09/25/09 Fri
Author: Luciana, Milene, Vagno, Helen
Subject: Comments on grammar ppt

In the past, grammar was seen as a set of rules that referred to sentence-level only, and not rules governing the relationship between sentences. Those are discourse rules, which go not only beyond the sentence boundary by telling us how to string those sentences together but also the natural occurring of language use.
Nowadays, grammar must be seen from a communicative competence perspective, which includes the linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse and also the strategic competence aspect. According to Diane Larsen-Freeman (1991), grammar is one of the three dimensions of language that are interconnected. Grammar gives us the form or the structures of language, but those forms are literally meaningless without a second dimension that of semantics (meaning) and the third dimension pragmatics (use of language in communication).
Also, “teaching grammar at the sentence level with decontextualized sentences, which has been used in a traditional way of teaching, is not like to produce real learning.” So, we can say that everything revolves around context. Context takes into account such things as:
- Who the speaker/writer is
- Who the audience is
- Where the communication takes place
- What communication takes place before and after a sentence
- Implied and literal meanings
- Styles and registers
- The alternative forms among which a producer can choose
- How the structure of sentences is influenced by the relationship between the speaker and the hearer
Therefore, grammar should be taught within a discourse analysis perspective, which means, forms should be incorporated into communicative tasks: grammar consciousness raising – incidental references to form which promote noticing, that is, the learner’s paying attention to specific linguist features in input.

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Re: Comments on grammar ppt -- Cristina Monteiro, 18:27:52 09/26/09 Sat