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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 (.....)


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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 others use language. It can help foster precision, detect ambiguity, and exploit the richness of expression available in English. And it can help everyone--not only teachers of English, but teachers of anything, for all teaching is ultimately a matter of getting to grips with meaning.
(David Crystal, "In Word and Deed," TES Teacher, April 30, 2004)

According to Penny Ur, grammar may be roughly defined as the way a language manipulates and combines words (or bits of words) in order to form longer units of meaning. For example, in English the present form of the verb be in the third person has two distinct forms, and if the plural are is combined with a singular subject, the result is usually unacceptable or “ungrammatical”. There is a set of rules which govern how units of meaning may be constructed in any language: we may say that a learner who knows grammar is one who has mastered and can apply these rules to express himself in what would be considered acceptable language forms.

Jeremy Harmer defines the grammar of a language as the description of the ways in which words can change their forms and can be combined into sentences. If grammar rules are too carelessly violated, communication may suffer. (...)

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