Teaching Language: From Grammar To Grammaring
by Diane Larsen-Freeman /
2003 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
