TEACHING OF GRAMMAR IN THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM TSL3108

Critical Respond
In the era of globalization, English plays a central role as the universal and international
language. There are two approaches and two issues of teaching grammar in the school to be
discuss in this essay.
Approaches in the teaching grammar Deductive and Inductive Approaches
The deductive approaches are that the students know from the beginning what is going
on and adults generally like that. In my opinion, giving them the rules first makes them feel safe
and comfortable. At the same time, however, it makes them lazy and over reliant on rules which
are not always true. An over reliance on rules and the ensuing disappointment when the rules
are not always right can be very demotivating.
In the other hand, inductive approaches are closer to L1 acquisition and therefore, seen
as being more natural. There is still a point where the class discusses and the teacher explains
the rule, but based on the input and the practice. The problem with this is that it takes more time
for the student to figure things out and some people dont like that little child lost their feeling.
Issues in teaching grammar Meaning & Use of Grammar and Correct Grammatical Error
It is clear that when we introduce a new piece of grammar we must teach not only the
form, but also one of its functions. Teachers need to make themselves aware of the grammar
they are teaching and they can do this by consulting a reference grammar in order to be on top
of their material .In a larger sense they should make sure that the materials and books they use
do not actively encourage student confusion; from the point of view of grammar, clarity is a
characteristic that teachers should expect from their textbooks.
Next, it is fair to say that language mistakes are part of learning and error correction is
part of teaching. Teachers should not make overt correction as this is tedious for students.
Nevertheless, teachers can make notes of errors and write them on the whiteboard without
indicating who make them. Nonetheless, delayed correction is not also effective because out of
context errors do not make any sense to students in various activities and learners may not
understand what was wrong with the utterance. In one respect, if learners are beginners, it would
be useful to point out some grammatical errors to establish their knowledge about the language
accurately.