TEACHING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES
Research in language teaching leads to new methodologies, which may deal with comprehensive approaches to language or satisfy certain needs, such as quick acquisition of the fundamentals, or of business English. Teaching grammar is an essential aspect since, without learning the basic structures, no further skills can be efficiently developed. However, what the best way of teaching the grammar rules maybe has forever been debated. This article reviews some of the latest orientations in this direction, which exhibit completely different approaches to language acquisition. It also insists on the greater contribution expected from the teachers, who are supposed to adjust their teaching procedures to classroom needs
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