The document discusses various aspects of teaching grammar including what grammar is, grammatical terms, presenting and explaining grammar, grammar practice activities, and grammatical mistakes. It defines grammar as the way words are structured to form correct sentences and notes that every language has different grammatical structures. It also describes the different views on teaching grammar directly versus indirectly through oral teaching. Furthermore, it outlines the stages of presenting and explaining grammar as well as different types of grammar practice activities from awareness to free discourse. Lastly, it distinguishes between grammatical errors and mistakes.

1. Teaching Grammar
By
Puspita
Yudaningrum

2. What Is
Grammar?
Grammatical
Terms
The Place of
Grammar
Teaching
Presenting and
Explaining Grammar
Grammatical
Mistakes
Grammar
Practice
Activities

3. What is Grammar?
• Grammar in General, grammar is sometimes
defined as ‘the way words are put together to make
correct sentences’.
• Grammatical Structure is patterns to make a correct
sentences. Every language has different
grammatical structures.
• Grammatical meaning, grammar does not only
affect the form of the sentence but also must have
a precise meaning.

4. The Place of Grammatical Teaching
Comments : the place of grammatical teaching
• Extract 1 -> Grammar not taught directly, but
indirectly with oral teaching like mother tongue.
• Extract 2 -> The teacher help their students to
study grammar by providing and practice in the
classroom.
• Extract 3 -> Learning grammar does not help in
a real conversation.
• Extract 4 -> Don’t too focused to learn grammar
because not all students are interested if only to
learn about grammar.

5. Grammatical Term
• Unit of language -> smaller units of language are
sentence, clause, phrase, word, morpheme.
• Parts of the sentence -> the most common part of
sentence are subject, verb and object.
• Part of speech -> part of speech are
nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, auxilia
ry verbs, modal verbs, determiners, and
prepositions.

6. Presenting and explaining grammar
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Stage 1 -> presentation
Stage 2 -> check and re-check our explanation
Stage 3 -> feedback with discuss with our students
Stage 4 -> Make guideline
Stage 5 -> Compare our guideline with other
guideline
• Stage 6 -> Using another guideline.

7. Grammar Practice Activities
Type of grammar practice: form accuracy to in
fluency:
• Awareness
• Controlled drills
• Meaningful drills
• Guided, meaningful practice
• (structure-based) free sentence composition
• (structure-based) discourse composition
• Free discourse

8. Grammatical mistakes
• Terminology -> errors ( which are consistent and
based on a mis-learned generalization) and
mistakes (occasional inconsistent slips).
• What is a mistake? -> mistake is something sounds
or looks ‘wrong’.