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Comment faire de la grammaire sans trahir le discours: Le cas des exercices grammaticaux (How to Teach Grammar without Betraying Discourse: The Case of Grammatical Exercises).

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Calve, Pierre – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1994

Discusses the various functions of grammar in second-language (SL) education, and examines the relationship between discourse and grammar in SL education. Two problems are then examined concerning the relationship between discourse and grammar within grammatical exercises, and with the help of concrete examples, suggestions are offered to better…

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, FLES, French, Grammar

Grammar and the Spoken Language.

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Carter, Ronald; McCarthy, Michael – 1994

This paper argues that second language instruction that aims to foster speaking skills and natural spoken interaction should be based upon the grammar of the spoken language, and not on grammars that reflect written norms. Using evidence from a corpus of conversational English, this examination focuses on how four grammatical features that occur…

Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries