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Teaching Grammar to Adult English Language Learners: Focus on Form Reflection paper The article says that many

adult language learners are very focused on learning how to structure language in a proper way. Personally, I do not argue that it is not a good manner of learning a language; nevertheless I do have to say that the manner or the focusing of a language course may vary depending on the students contexts and who they are. It depends also if it is a foreign language or if it is taught as a second one in consequence of noticing that it may not work creating a setting where the teacher speaks with fluency and do not focuses n the grammar itself in a graphical way due to the fact that those students are exposed to their second language only when they are inside the classroom. By reading the article I have realized that teaching grammar is not just about telling students how to organize words correctly. Teaching grammar is taught unconsciously most of the times due to the fact that even when you are only speaking to the students you are actually teaching the right manner of structuring words, so adults will not learn bad grammar if what they are listening is produced correctly, because they tend to imitate just as little kids and sometimes more than them. The article also emphasizes some methods of teaching grammar, and one that caught my attention was the Audio-lingual method, which shared implicit orientation about grammar by repeating what the teacher said over and over again. In this sense, students learned pronunciation, but also grammar. Still, this method did not satisfy all students needs and it started being less and less used, because the fact of repeating is not real language. When a teacher focuses on grammar, he/she is focusing on form. It is useful when the teacher puts activities in which students are able to reinforce what they have learned and plan activities where they have to structure written language or even spoken. Still, another manner of making students learn is by focusing on function too, so that students would be able to know the how of the language and its use.

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