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A Constructivist Approach to Grammar: Teaching Teachers To Teach Aspect.

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Blyth, Carl – Modern Language Journal, 1997

Demonstrates how a constructivist approach to teacher education helps inexperienced teachers understand learning and teaching of aspect, a core grammatical concept. By consciously experiencing the process of narration, apprentice teachers construct deeper awareness of form/meaning aspectual correlations of the target language. More generally,…

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Grammar, Language Patterns

Textbook Grammar: Does It Reflect Native Speaker Speech?

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Glisan, Eileen W.; Drescher, Victor – Modern Language Journal, 1993

A study examined the occurrence of specific grammatical structures (double object pronouns, nominalization with "lo," demonstrative adjectives/pronouns, and possessive adjectives/pronouns) in oral samples of native speaker Spanish and compared the results with the treatment of the structures in six beginning-level college Spanish textbooks.…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grammar, Higher Education, Language Patterns