1、中學(xué)英語語法教學(xué)on the teaching methods of english grammar in middle schoolabstract: the term paper is concerned with the debate at home and abroad, that is, whether the students should learn english grammar and what kinds of teaching methods teachers should adopt. by analyzing the english grammar viewpoint

2、s of foreign english teaching schools and present situations of english grammar teaching in china, and connecting the understanding second language acquisition to the format of final examination of english, the author draw a conclusion that learning english grammar is of importance. by digging into

3、the advantages and disadvantages of traditional english grammar teaching methods, the author presents her english grammar teaching methods.key words: grammar; grammar teaching; english in middle school摘 要：這篇文章是關(guān)于國內(nèi)外都一直在討論的話題：學(xué)生是否應(yīng)該學(xué)習(xí)英語語法以及教師應(yīng)該用什么方法來教授英語語法。通過分析國外英語教學(xué)流派的語法教學(xué)觀念和我國英語語法教學(xué)的現(xiàn)狀，結(jié)合二語習(xí)得理論和高考題

4、型來闡述英語語法學(xué)習(xí)的重要性以及傳統(tǒng)英語語法教學(xué)方法的利與弊,并提出自己的英語語法教學(xué)方法。關(guān) 鍵 字：語法； 語法教學(xué)；中學(xué)英語 contentsi. several definitions of grammar .1ii. the debate on english grammar in present situation.1iii. the historical development of english grammar .2.the theoretical and practical meaning for us to learn english grammar.3a. the th

5、eoretical meaning for us to learn english grammar.3b. the practical meaning for us to learn english grammar.3.the methods we should apply to english grammar teaching .4a. the habit-formation theory.4b. the traditional methods of english grammar teaching.4c. opinions about the methods of english gram

6、mar teaching .5 1. role playing.5 2. using pictures or information sheets.73. using stories.84. using conversations.95. reciting passages.10. conclusion.11works cited.11i. several definitions of grammargrammar may be roughly defined as the way language manipulates and combines words (or bits of word

7、s) in order to form longer units of meaning (david 2).grammar is a description of the structure of a language and the way in which units such as words and phrases are combines to produce sentences in the language (david 2).grammar is the way in which words change themselves and group together to mak

8、e sentences. the grammar of a language is what happens to words when they become plural or negative, or what order is used when we make questions or join two clauses to make one sentences (david 2).in my opinion, grammar is just a rule which attributes to combining different word or word phrases to

9、a meaningful sentence. all these sentences joining together form a meaningful discourse.ii. the debate on english grammar in present situationwith the development of china, more and more parents realize that mastering foreign languages is of importance for people living in china. as is known to all,

10、 each language has its own rules which help people to combine different words into different phrases, and then into a sentence in order that we can communicate with each other. in english, we call these rules grammar. without grammar, words hang together without any real meaning or sense. in order t

11、o be able to speak a language to some degree of proficiency and to be able to express what we really what to say, we need to have some grammatical knowledge. by teaching grammar, we not only give our students the means of expressing themselves, but we also fulfill their expectations of what learning

12、 a foreign language involves. from this point of view, we could make a conclusion that learning the grammar well is the way in which is related to convey ourselves. even though we could interpret many evidences that we should learn english grammar, we still need more examples to prove it. whether th

13、e english grammar should be taught in middle school or not and what the teaching methods we should adopt are worth being talked here. just like what has been written on the a course in english language teaching, “the value of grammar in foreign language teaching has been a focus of debate for decade

14、s and the focus of the debate has been: 1) the role of grammar in language teaching; 2) the methods in which grammar should be presented and practiced” (wang 102).iii. the historical development of english grammarthe history of the debate can be found in a journal which can be paraphrased like this:

15、 issues on whether the teaching of english grammar should be taught and ever were debated intensely. in the history of english teaching in foreign countries, most foreign language teaching schools depended on their own system of theories and came up with different advocates to the foreign language t

16、eaching from different point of views which can be divided into three stages. the first stage, from traditional foreign language teaching theory ever laying predominately in grammar-translation method, spoke highly of english grammar and looked upon grammar as the center of the teaching task, and th

17、en transferred into audio-lingual method which preferred to the ability of listening and speaking. although it did not work against english grammar teaching, it mainly focused on teaching language rather than teaching knowledge of language. the second stage, also called modern grammar translation, s

18、tarted from the cognitive approach to the direct method which did attribute to teaching grammar indirectly and mainly emphasized on making students deal with grammar rules by mastering the learning materials. it was considered that language was a controlled or arranged system which mainly described

19、how common people learn foreign language by learning the rules and then mastered the grammar rules. the third was from the national approach posed by kristen and terrell who proposed that language teaching should not involve in grammar teaching to the communities approach, which attributed to the co

20、ncepts or functions being the centre of arranged teaching, however, it did not fight against teaching grammar completely in terms of theory. grammar teaching underwent ups and downs in the development and history of foreign language teaching. according to the analysis to perspectives of several fore

21、ign language teaching schools, we are able to draw a conclusion that the teaching of grammar should be done necessarily (bai 28).iv. the theoretical and practical meaning for us to learn english grammara. the theoretical meaning for us to learn english grammarchomsky thought that human beings are bo

22、rn with a language acquisition device which consists of set general principles. the core of grammar of a natural language agrees with the inborn set of general principles while the peripheral grammar cannot be governed by the language acquisition device. in researches into the second language proces

23、s, people have found that second language learners usually acquire the core grammar of the teaching language and then the peripheral grammar. this is simply because the core grammar agrees with the inborn general principles and is much easier to learn. they also believe that the core grammar will fa

24、cilitate the development of the learners interlingua and will exert a positive influence on the acquisitions of the teaching language.b. the practical meaning for us to learn english grammaras is known to all, english has become one of the major subjects in the final examination which students shoul

25、d take in middle school if they want to further their education in colleges or universities. in analyses of a piece of final test paper, we can draw a conclusion that the test paper usually consists of multiple choices, reading comprehension, correcting errors and writing which are closely related t

26、o grammar to some extent. for example, in multiple choices, we mainly focus on the structures of the sentences or the collocative forms between the verbs and prepositions or the conjunctions between the sentences. all these belong to one of the categories of the grammar. in the part of reading compr

27、ehension, the students are required to have a better understanding the whole context. as we know, the sentences are made up of a group of words which are combined by some rules (we call them grammar). in correction part, we mainly focus on testing the learners abilities to correct the errors, which

28、are in terms of collocative forms errors or conjunction errors, the part of which is the best manifestos of how well youve mastered english grammar. in reading part, we should organize different words in a sentence, and then these sentences are jointed together to form a composition or an article. t

29、hat is how we organize different words into a sentence with the help of the grammar rules. from this point of view, we can realize how important the grammar plays in our english learning on students part and english teaching on teachers part.v. the methods we should apply to english grammar teaching

30、a. the habit-formation theorythe habit-formation theory comes from the behaviorist psychology and was very popular in the 1950s and 1960s. it was put forward by a group of behaviorists with b.sskinner as their representative. according to behaviorists, language is regarded as a set of linguistics ha

31、bits which are formed through identifying and strengthening the associations between stimuli and responses. based on it, learning a second language means the formation of a new set of linguistic habits. therefore, imitation and practice play important roles in the process of habit-formation because

32、the behaviorists maintained that imitation will help learners identify the associations between stimuli and response while practice will reinforce associations and help learners to form the new linguistic habits (rod 21). the behavioral theory holds that learning needs rehearsal and stimuli and is i

33、nfluenced by the frequency of reinforcement, while the habit-formation theory holds that accuracy is focused in language learning.b. the traditional methods of english grammar teachingin the old times, when the english teacher taught the grammar, they would use two basic ways to introduce a new gram

34、mar item, either deductively or inductively. in a deductive approach, the teacher presented the grammar rules and then gave students exercises in which they apply the rules. in an inductive approach, the teacher presented samples of language, and the students have to come to an intuitive understandi

35、ng of the rules. these two approaches have been alternated through the years. the traditional grammar-translation approach was based on deduction. this approach was then challenged by audiolingualism. a basic tenet of audiolingualism was that students should learn inductively. “l(fā)earning by analogy,

36、not analysis” was a popular motto of audiolingulists. in fact, the deductive and inductive approaches are not mutually exclusive, and most teachers probably deploy both in their teaching. a major disadvantage of inductive learning is that it takes longer for students to arrive at an understanding of

37、 a rule that has been explained to them by their teacher. another disadvantage is that the students may in fact come to the wrong conclusion about a particular grammatical principle. however, the disadvantages of the deductive approach are that explanation is seldom as memorable as other forms of pr

38、esentation, such as demonstration and that such an approach encourages the belief that learning a language is simply a case of knowing rules (david 15-17).c. opinions about the methods of english grammar teachingas far as i am concerned, grammar is something that is not a dry and boring thing. now t

39、hat we can see that english grammar plays so important a role in learning english and teaching english, there is no doubt that we should learn english grammar. hence, the next step students should care about is how to learn english grammar well, so english teachers should try their best to teach english grammar with the best methods. ur points out that it is essential for the teachers to know how to present the form and meaning of a structure in a way that is clear, simple and helpful (wang 115). with the development of english itself, the students