[Grammar] How should grammar be taught?

[kevchua]

Hi everyone,

I'm teaching a few groups of students (approx. 96 of them) who joined our Intensive English Language programme where they're required to study Grammar as a subject (other than Listening/speaking, Reading and Writing) each trimester. Duration: 3 months. At the end of the trimester, they've to sit a comprehensive final exam.

I'd like to find out how teachers in other countries teach grammar in an exam-oriented environment. We have three different levels - elementary, intermediate and advanced.

Thanks.

[konungursvia]

I think a good way to teach grammar is through the reading of good authors like Tolkien and Lewis.

[nedira]

I think that a good way to teach grammar is to teach it indirectely through a

meaningful context.

[anupumh]

Originally Posted by nedira

I think that a good way to teach grammar is to teach it indirectely through a

meaningful context.

Nedira, please provide a few examples of teaching grammar via contexts...
Would you be kind enough to elaborate of this, by telling about such a session which you have taken...?

[kevchua]

Originally Posted by konungursvia

I think a good way to teach grammar is through the reading of good authors like Tolkien and Lewis.

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Hi, thanks for the response. Well, I only wish that I could use literary texts to teach grammar but most of my students are weak in English. The majority do not use English in their own country.

[barbarajohnson]

You can get whatever answer you require if you search about them online, although, their are different institutions having different format about it, so its better that you search for a general format which will help you the most....

Regards,
Barbara J
English School London