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<p>Creating classroom activities which really get students to communicate in a natural and meaningful way remains a timely challenge when it comes to teaching a foreign language. This article sets out to revisit the traditional trifecta based on the three Ps (presentation, practice, production) and reincorporate it in a set of specific elements that ensure a successful outcome of language learning activities. With particular focus on grammar, the paper aims to deconstruct the steps and procedures behind five important aspects to be taken into consideration when planning and conducting activities that target structures of language and their practice in a communicative manner, with the ultimate goal of linking the often sterile theory of grammar with contextualized models and tasks.</p>
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Creating classroom activities which really get students to communicate in a natural and meaningful way remains a timely challenge when it comes to teaching a foreign language. This article sets out to revisit the traditional trifecta based on the three Ps (presentation, practice, production) and reincorporate it in a set of specific elements that ensure a successful outcome of language learning activities. With particular focus on grammar, the paper aims to deconstruct the steps and procedures behind five important aspects to be taken into consideration when planning and conducting activities that target structures of language and their practice in a communicative manner, with the ultimate goal of linking the often sterile theory of grammar with contextualized models and tasks.

Packing and Unpacking Grammar – Towards a Communicative Approach to Teaching Language Structures

Scientific Bulletin

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Creating classroom activities which really get students to communicate in a natural and meaningful way remains a timely challenge when it comes to teaching a...

Packing and Unpacking Grammar – Towards a Communicative Approach to Teaching Language Structures

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 121 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bsaft-2021-0014

Keywords
Language teaching, grammar, language structures, communicative approach

© 2021 Isabela-Anda Dragomir et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Packing and Unpacking Grammar – Towards a Communicative Approach to Teaching Language Structures

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 121 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bsaft-2021-0014

KeywordsLanguage teaching, grammar, language structures, communicative approach

© 2021 Isabela-Anda Dragomir et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Language teaching, grammar, language structures, communicative approach