LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:6 June 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Implicit Grammar Teaching Activities

Vairamuthu Suntharesan, M.Phil, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

As teaching of English as a Second language is concerned, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is currently popular and in practice in most of the educational institutions. Though CLT emphasizes meaning than form, it never fails to recognize both aspects of accuracy and fluency to the same extent. It’s a well known fact that so far no method or approach has suggested that the rules governing the structure of the language can be deviated or violated. In fact, perfection of meaning inevitably depends on the perfection of meaning. There have been instances in the day-to-day social interactions where meaning gets distorted because of the flaw in structuring the language. This article focuses on how suitable language activities can be taught to enable students to recognize grammar patterns within the sphere of language use in real life situations. The activities introduced in the article are expected to help students to use the language in authentic circumstances in the proper form.

Key Words: Implicit Grammar Teaching, Explicit Grammar Teaching, Motivation, Real Life Situation

Introduction

Teaching of any language neglecting to focus on its grammar patterns may be unsuccessful, as grammar is well recognized as the set of rules governing the proper functioning of language. But what passes under criticism is the notion that students master the grammar rules without achieving the ability to function in the language using such grammar knowledge. In other words students learn about the language but not to use the language to fulfill their needs.

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Vairamuthu Suntharesan, M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar
Senior Lecturer
English Language Teaching Center
University of Jaffna
Jaffna
Sri Lanka
suntharesan@yahoo.com
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