Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring

Type

Book

Authors

Diane Larsen-Freeman

ISBN 10

0838466753

ISBN 13

9780838466759

Tags

Foreign Language Study & Reference, Study & Teaching, English as a Second Language, Instruction Methods, Education, Foreign Languages

Description

A must-read for every language teaching professional, TEACHING LANGUAGE: FROM GRAMMAR TO GRAMMARING explores the regular, predictable elements of language as well as the potential creativity of its underlying system. By combining a wide range of view points with her own personal experiences and studies, Diane Larsen-Freeman challenges the static descriptive ideas of grammar, based on rules, and promotes the more fluid and dynamic notions of reason-driven grammaring, which she defines as "the ability to use grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately." The reader is left not with an encyclopedic set of definitions, but rather with a deeper understanding of the organic nature of language and its acquisition, and a honed set of tools with which to approach language in language teaching. - from Amzon

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