GROUP DISCUSSION

Grammar is a set of recurrent word patterns that helps speakers

and writers to both understand and express concepts. What are
some of the ways in which grammar tells us something about
how we think?
Can you think of any ways or situations in which prescriptivism is
unhelpful?
Spoken and written language use different patterns for
organizing words. Do you think that (monolingual) speakers and
writers operate with two completely different grammars, or
would you say that they have one single grammar system which
contains different word patterns whose frequencies differ in
spoken and written forms of that language? Why?
Spoken and written languages use different word patterns. Is the
grammar of speech "simpler" than that of writing, or are we
dealing with grammars of equal complexity?
DOES GRAMMAR
MATTER?

Communication
Learning
English classes at regular
school
English classes at language
courses (e.g. CNA, Wizard,
Yázigi)
WHAT'S THE ROLE OF
GRAMMAR IN YOUR
TEACHING?