The document discusses the importance of grammar instruction in language teaching. It argues that grammar plays an important role like the frame of a house in ensuring a solid foundation for learning English. It also states that grammar acts as a walking stick to help and support students. The document will then discuss the pedagogical implications of grammar teaching and provide an example grammar activity and its theoretical rationale before concluding.

1. Poor Grammar
I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar is a very interesting take on the hiring of new
employees, and I agree with what he is saying completely. Here is the broken down 4 elements of
a rhetorical situation in relation to this piece of writing. I would identify this piece of writing as an
article. An article is a piece of writing included with others in a newspaper, magazine, or other
publication. I'm not sure where this piece is originally from, but I do know that it is a short piece
of writing that has one single topic, and is meant for people to view. It doesn't fit well into any
other classification, so this is the lucky one. Usually articles are brief and get to a point, and have a
decent appeal to the audience of wherever it is published to.
There are a couple of purposes in this text that I believe he was trying to portray. The first purpose I
believe is to amuse/humor. There is quite a bit of evidence that he is trying to give us a little bit of
laugh, especially in the beginning. In just in the first paragraph he uses sarcastic humor to get his
message across. "If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never
work for me" Is just an example of one that I found quite funny, and there are more to follow. I do
not think that the...show more content...
Wiens told us what his view were and why he thought that way. He even gave examples of why
his philosophy is a good one, stating observations that he made when comparing grammar skills
to work skills in the 10th paragraph. He didn't beat around the bush when explaining why he
refuses to hire people who can't pass a grammar test, making him seem honest and also a little
harsh (in a good way). Wiens let people know that if you are actually as detail oriented as you say,
you won't use the wrong "to" in a sentence. Basically, he doesn't mess around, and if you don't pass
his test, you aren't worth the time of day. Straight forward, like I
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2. Importance of Grammar Essay
A.Introduction
It is not uncommon to say that grammar instruction plays an important role in language teaching.
Regarding the status and importance of grammar teaching, a variety of opinions have been made.
Batstone (1994) states that "language without grammar would be chaotic: countless words without
the indispensable guidelines for how they can be ordered and modified" (p. 4). More vividly, Wang
(2010) makes two similes. She compares grammar to the frame of a house, which is a decisive factor
to ensure the solidness of it. Additionally, she regards grammar as a walking stick, whose function is
to help and support students to learn English. Thus, the nature of grammar instruction manifests its
own significance as it helps students...show more content...
In the third part, three pedagogical implications will be presented. In addition, a grammar activity
and its theoretical rationale will be respectively reported in the fourth and fifth part before the final
conclusion is displayed.
B.Evaluation of Miss Wong's Teaching Approach
B(1). Teaching philosophy
It is teachers' beliefs rather than their knowledge that have a greater influence on their instruction
(William & Burden, 2000). Meighan suggests seven kinks of teachers' beliefs about learners:
resisters, receptacles, raw materials, clients, partners, individual explorers and democratic explorers.
Unlike the first three concepts which focus on teachers, the last four require learners' active
involvement (as cited in William & Burden, 2000). In Miss Wong's teaching approach, a PPP model
(i.e., Presentation, Practice and Production) is generally adopted. She firstly presents target
grammatical structure of passive voice. Then students do some exercises along with teacher's answer
checking. However, it seems the final production step is omitted, resulting in students' lacking
opportunities to apply the knowledge into other contexts. From her instruction, we can see Miss
Wong tends to regard her students as receptacles that are required to absorb the items she transmits.
What the instruction concerns is whether students can transform sentences from active to passive or
vice verse from a structural level, which is a typical example of a
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