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Question

Question relate to teaching skills and abilities:

In practical terms, focusing on a grammar topic may be a challenge for the teacher and the student. Using the Passive Voice as mere example, Larsen-Freeman (2003, p. 47) states that “the ultimate challenge of the passive voice is not form” because “although it is a grammatical form, it is not the form that presents the learning challenge”. In her example, focusing on form, teachers may mistakenly choose to introduce the passive as a transformed version of the active, implying they are interchangeable or that all passive sentences include the agent, which is definitely not the case. A good alternative to teaching through form could be to:

Accepted Answer

do a three dimensional analysis of the language
item and think about where the long term learning
challenge lies, which in many cases may be in
when / why one should choose this or that
language structure.

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have students copy a few sentences from the
board and sort out their similarities and
differences so as to measure students’
awareness and only then start a possible
sentence transformation exercise.

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bring realia to class so students can get involved
with the class, which in this case could mean
buying students gifts and then making them
create sentences starting with “a gift” e.g. A gift
was given to João.

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take a grammar book to class and have students
memorize the rules until they know them by heart
and then have them orally transform sentences
back and forth, according to the language item.

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do a three dimensional analysis of the language
item and think about ways to contrast it with other
similar ones so students can focus on how they
may put the parts of the sentences together.

Q200777 - COSEAC Professor - Inglês 2018