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Por esto: A lot of pronunciation teaching tends to be done in response to errors which students make in the classroom. Such reactive teaching is, of course, absolutely necessary, and will always be so. However, when it comes to planning a lesson, teachers tend to make grammar their first concern. Lexis follows closely behind. Yet pronunciation work can, and should, be planned for too. Teachers should regard features of pronunciation as integral to language analysis and lesson planning. Any analysis of language that disregards or sidelines factors of pronunciation is incomplete (.....) Y por esto otro: 1.1. Definition of grammar I would like to start by recalling and summarizing what some language teaching experts have said to define grammar. David Crystal defines grammar as our ability to express ourselves. Grammar relates to meaning and to see how it does that. The more we are aware of how it works, the more we can monitor the meaning and effectiveness of the way we and ot