English Grammar in Motion. Learning Grammar in Context (PDF)

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: English for General Purpose, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This is a self-study book intended to help contextualize English grammar structures. Learning grammar in context is more important as a language is learned for communication purposes. This book contains twenty-seven units. Each unit tackles a particular grammar structure. Not all grammar structures are handled. Based on the author's teaching experience, the structures under discussion were deemed more important than others. They were selected, responding to students' needs (students as second language learners) suiting the teaching to their needs.

Those grammar structures are contextualized in self-created dialogues and examples bank (different sentences or passages from other scholars' works). Each unit is subdivided into different activities. Some units have more activities than others, depending on their weight. But no unit counts less than three activities. The first common activity is about reading self-created dialogues to learn about how a given grammar structure is used in context.

The second common activity is about perusing different sentences and passages from other scholars' publications. The example banks serve as a proof to the reader that it is not only the writer who used the structures in context, but also many other researchers. It also ensures the reader that there is no difference between the way the writer uses the structures and other scholars. Furthermore, the example banks motivate students to learn English alongside with other subjects, bearing in mind that they cannot fully grasp the subjects they are doing in English without mastering general English.

The last common activity is about using the same structure in the reader's own texts. After reading through writer's dialogues, and then perusing examples bank to see how other scholars used a given grammar structure, the reader can produce his/her own texts to check her/his understanding of the structure under discussion.