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Revisiting the Debate of Grammar Teaching: A Young Scholar’s Perspective
Mohammed Sadat
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2017.01.001
Department of Public Relations Management, University ofProfessional Studies, Accra
The debate of grammar teaching has taken center stage in the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) literature over a long period of time. Most of these debates emanate from distinguished scholars like DeKeyser, Long and Ellis. This paper seeks to add to the debate the views of an emerging scholar in the field of SLA. The paper addresses the key questions related to grammar pedagogy in SLA. It discusses whether grammar should be taught and if so, when and how. More importantly, the paper points to alternative solutions to each problem related to grammar teaching. The paper explores the most current debate in the grammar teaching by evaluating the validity of the arguments advanced in the debate. The evaluation is based on the key issues going on in the debate. The paper considered the debate as a healthy one that will give a positive and appropriate way towards teaching useful grammar. The paper suggests that language instructors should take into consideration different aspects regarding; what, how, when, and why should grammar be taught. Also, the paper recommends that teaching grammar should depend on the level of the learners, therefore a good teacher should always teach based on the levels of the learners.
grammar teaching, second language acquisition, emerging scholar
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