Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring
A must-read for every language teaching professional, Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring explores the regular, predictable elements of language as well as the potential creativity of its underlying system. By combining a wide range of view points with her own personal experiences and studies, Diane Larsen-Freeman challenges the static descriptive ideas of grammar, based on rules, and promotes the more fluid and dynamic notions of reason-driven grammaring, which she defines as "the ability to use grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately." The reader is left not with an encyclopedic set of definitions, but rather with a deeper understanding of the organic nature of language and its acquisition, and a honed set of tools with which to approach language in language teaching.
- Author
- Diane Larsen-Freeman
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 180
- Publisher
- Heinle ELT
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780838466759
- Genres
- teaching, linguistics
- Release date
- 2003
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