Week 7 – Day One
Grammar: The most dreaded subject in TEFL!
Well, things are getting interesting…!
This week we are discussing about grammar involving words and word classes. It’s quite to note on how opinions and views have changed about teaching grammar in the classroom. Of course – grammar can mean different things depending on how people view this. There is a subconscious system of rules that govern our speech or ‘Universal Grammar’ as Chomsky puts it. Grammar was once viewed as the science of language but that is strictly not true. The science of language is referred as ‘Philology’ [or 'Linguistics' as its now called]. It is the branch that deals with accidence, phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.
