Grammaring refers to the process by which learners acquire the ability to use grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately. It was coined by applied linguist Diane Larsen-Freeman to describe grammar learning as a dynamic process rather than a system of static rules. Grammaring emphasizes how learners construct finer meaning distinctions through adding grammar to sequences of words. Larsen-Freeman proposes grammaring as an important process in second/foreign language learning, though others argue grammar and vocabulary are not skills themselves but components essential to developing proficiency in the four core language skills.

1. GRAMMARING

2. WHAT IS GRAMMAR?
• Grammar was considered a method of language teaching
and learning within the so-called Grammar-Translation
Approach.
• Within this approach, which draws from philology, grammar
was viewed as the core of language. However, with the shift
from philology to linguistics, the notion of grammar has
changed accordingly.
• With the eruption of modern linguistics, grammar began to
be described as a system of structures in addition to
vocabulary and pronunciation.

3. WHAT IS THE CONCEPT OF
GRAMMARING?
• The process by which a learner acquires the ability to use
grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and
appropriately.
• The term “grammaring” was coined by applied linguist Diane
Larsen-Freeman to convey the dynamic nature of the
grammar learning process.

4. IMPORTANCE OF GRAMMARING
• messages through grammaticalizing or adding grammar to a
sequence of words to create finer meaning distinctions.
• The linguist Diane Larsen-Freeman proposes grammaring as
an important process in second/ foreign language learning.
• Grammaring emphasizes grammar as a dynamic process
rather than a system of rules.

5. GRAMMARING FROM LARSEN-FREEMAN
• Larsen-Freeman says “grammaring” can be seen as a “fifth
skill.”
HOWEVER,
• Grammar and vocabulary are not language skills. They are
language components which are essential to the mastery of
all the four skills.
• You cannot use any language skill without using grammar
and vocabulary. Grammar is not an end in itself but it is a
means to an end—to improve learners’ proficiency in the four
language skills.