Considerations When Planning Grammatical Tasks

Approach grammatical features from three perspectives: form, meaning, and use.

Consider the following principles when incorporating instruction of grammatical features:

• identify the grammar resources that students need

• teach awareness of the nature of texts

• develop awareness of the difference between written and spoken language

• use corpora to explore texts (this research provides a teacher with important knowledge around frequency and use of a grammatical form in a specific genre or discourse which could then inform instruction).

• use a variety of teaching approaches (inductive and deductive)

• provide opportunities for guided noticing

• provide opportunities for meaningful communicative practice

• provide opportunities for students to produce stretched output

• make links between grammar and vocabulary

• use student errors to inform instruction

• integrate grammar within complex communicative tasks (reading, writing, speaking, listening)