Teaching Grammar: Strategies

English Instructional Technology

Annisa Fairuz Ardian 18202244030

Nur Asyidah 18202249002
1. Direct Explaining (Explicit Approach)

Explain a grammar rule directly using the students’ mother

tongue. This has the advantage of allowing students to contrast an
item of grammar in English with an item of grammar in the
students’ own language. For example, the two languages might
use past tenses in different ways.
2. Discovering the Grammar (Implicit Approach)

Do this by choosing a text which contains lots of examples of the

target grammar. For example, if the text includes regular verbs in
the past simple form (e.g. lived, travelled, moved, etc), ask the
students to underline all the verbs in the text. Then ask them to
say what they notice about the verbs – which will be that they all
end in -ed.
3. Using Pictures or Drawings (Illustrating Grammar Points)

For example, a picture of a person dreaming of a future ambition can be

used to introduce “be going to” to talk about future intentions.
4. Asking Concept Questions (Checking Understanding)

Write a sentence on the board containing the grammar structure. For

example, this sentence uses the past simple: He left university in 2008.
Next, ask the students concept questions which check their
understanding of when the action happened.
5. Using Tables (Showing the Form)

For example, these tables show the affirmative and negative

forms of a verb in the present simple tense. The table that
contains regular and irregular verb.
6. Inductive Method

The inductive method of teaching grammar involves presenting

several examples that illustrate a specific concept and expecting
students to notice how the concept works from these examples.
No explanation of the concept is given beforehand, and the
expectation is that students learn to recognize the rules of
grammar in a more natural way during their own reading and
writing.
7. Deductive Method

The deductive method of teaching grammar is an approach that

focuses on instruction before practice. A teacher gives students an
in-depth explanation of a grammatical concept before they
encounter the same grammatical concept in their own writing.
After the lesson, students are expected to practice what they have
just been shown in a mechanical way, through worksheets and
exercises.
8. Interactive Teaching

Another method of teaching grammar is to incorporate

interactivity into lessons. Using games to teach grammar not only
engages students but also helps them to remember what they’ve
learned.
9. Audio lingual method : Grammar Game

Games like the Supermarket Alphabet Game described in this

chapter are used in the Audio-Lingual Method. The games are
designed to get students to practice a grammar point within a
context. Students are able to express themselves, although in a
limited way. Notice there is also a lot of repetition in this game.