In my opinion, I learned a little from the grammar class itself. The grammar class here means two hours' class every two weeks. I think grammar classes are too short. It's no more than 20 hours a term. In the first term, we spent too much time on presentation. It should have been interesting and helpful, but honestly speaking, I cannot remember any presentation except the one I did with my group members. In fact, every group tried their best to make their own presentation more attractive, however, the results were different. Some were funny and some were boring. Sometimes I even found difficult to understand what they were talking. Writing key points on the blackboard might be a good way for better understanding, but if we could have written the key points in computer, typed it and handed it out before presentation, maybe the reaction would be better. Besides this, we didn't have enough exercises during the first term. I think the teacher should prepare some proper exercises that can be done after presentations. If this presentation is about articles, we should do exercises about articles. This can help us consolidate what we have learned in the presentation. In the second term, grammar classes seemed better. The exercises we did were helpful for Band 4.
Final exam is interesting. Making up a meaningful and creative story with 16 verb forms seemed difficult at first. But when I had finished writing the story, I found I knew better about these 16 verb forms. I wanted to use these forms correctly, so I looked up grammar books for further information. This helped me understand the differences between some similar verb forms. In the past, I was often puzzled with some verb forms and I did not know how to use them correctly. With the help of making up a short story, I am not puzzled any longer.
Although I am not much interested in the grammar class itself, I find it helpful to follow the teacher's advice and reference.
Seduction of Grammar Grammar is everywhere. ... Not once in this communication cycle do we think more or less about grammar. Friedrich Nietzsche, however, analyzed language and grammar and theorized on the seduction of grammar. ... Will we ever get out of the seduction of grammar? ... Grammar is and always will be everywhere. ...
For anybody that needs to express an idea through writing, grammar and style in your piece are almost as important as the actual idea. If you don't apply knowledge of grammar and style in your writing, your idea will not come across clearly to the reader and the central idea may end up being lost. ... Big Dog's Grammar This website is very user friendly and walks you through many different aspects of grammar, gives understandable examples, and administers self tests to ensure you are on the right track to grasping specific elements of grammar. Big Dog's Grammar is very us...
What are the differences between 'descriptive' and 'prescriptive' grammars. ... Prescriptive grammar is a set of rules laid out around how certain people believe language should be used. Whereas, descriptive grammar is a set description on how language is actually used. ... When looking at prescriptivism, there are certain rules applied to the grammar. ... This type of grammar relates to the 'grammar as algorithms' (Thornbury, 2009) as it is a standard formula in which the speaker needs to arrange the language in order to be understood. ...
Standard English and the prescriptive approach to grammar are usually referred to as "Correct English," but this is simply a foklinguistic belief. Newspaper headlines do not tend to use this approach to grammar instead they frequently use a descriptive method, which the reasons for will now be discussed. ... This may be due to the fact that football is typically a working class spectator sport and as they tend to be the users of less "correct English" they can relate better to the informal language used in the headline. ... They tend to take a descriptive approach to grammar, as the pur...
I took this class to gain experience in writing. My only other experience before this class has been an essay in other English classes or a dreaded research paper. ... There were few grammar errors and it was well written. ... Collins vigorous teaching of grammar basics earlier in the semester was evident as my grammar and sentence structure improved. ... My grammar skills have improved thanks to the grammar unit. ...
These cultural categories consist of an author's race, nationality, class, age, profession, gender, and region basic demographics. ... When he wrote a "Theme for English B" he was a young twenty-two year old, lower class student. ... My personal experience of becoming a well-rounded academically literate student began in grammar school when I was first taught to read and write. I was able to grasp the grammatical concepts and move on to proper grammar and sentence structures. ...
In Australia, English Language Intensive Course for Overseas Students" (ELICOS) classes have a maximum number of 18 students per class and as such might well be considered a large class. ... CLT requires students to be actively involved in the learning process in contrast with the traditional teaching methods of grammar theory/teacher fronted classes. ... Ellis also cited in Li (2001) observed that "class size, grammar-based examinations, and lack of exposure to authentic language as constraints on using CLT. ... Class size ranked lower. ... Is it perhaps that CLT can not or will not be readil...
Universal Grammar (Noam Chomsky) One of the most popular theories in language acquisition is that of Noam Chomsky, who developed the concept of Universal Grammar in 1959. ... Universal Grammar represents the concept of a box that contains all the principles and parameters of human language. ... Although may seem equivalent, first language and second language acquisition differ in many ways, plus the Universal Grammar theory does not apply originally to second language acquisition, in contrast to what some of Chomsky's followers propose. ... Based on its basic rules, the Universal Grammar...
The man who I interviewed was Mr Brian Trumble from Pulteney Grammar School. ... Mr Trumble's work history is ETST, St Johns Ambulance, and Guide Dogs Association and now Brian is working at Pulteney Grammar School, starting June (2000). ...
