Grammar Teaching Practice vs ConsciousnessRaising Practice Stage that

Grammar Teaching Practice vs Consciousness-Raising

Practice: Stage that consists of a series of exercises, whose aim is to cause the learners to absorb the structure.

Mechanical Practice • Rigidly controlled activities. Contextualised practice • Encourage learners to relate form to meaning by using real-life situations. Communicative practice • Information gap activities which require learners to engage in authentic communication.

Isolate a specific grammatical feature. Learners receive feedback on their performance. Sucess oriented. Practice Characteristics Produce sentences containing the target feature. Repetition of the target feature.

Consciousness-Raising: It is the attempt to equip the learner with an understanding of a specific grammatical feature.

Consciousness. Raising Activities Inductive Deductive • Learner is provided with data and asked to construct an explicit rule to describe the grammatical feature. • Learner is supplied with a rule which is then used to carry out some task.

Isolates linguistic features Learners may be required to articulate the rule describing the grammatical structure. Clarification is in the form of further data description or explanation. Conciousness. Raising characteristics Data or explicit rule is provided to the learner to explain the feature Learners are expected to utilise intellectual effort.

Purpose of CR in the teaching of grammar To make learners more autonomous by developing their analytical ability. To help learners acquire conscious knowledge which they can use to understand input and monitor their own output. To direct learners’ attention to grammar features they might notice on their own. To help learners make form/meaning connections.

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