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17 - Grammar and Good Language Teachers

from Part III - Instructional Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2020

By
Mirosław Pawlak
Edited by
Carol Griffiths  and
Zia Tajeddin
Carol Griffiths
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Zia Tajeddin
Affiliation:
Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
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Summary

Chapter 17 describes effective grammar instruction and examines the instructional practices of six teachers involved in grammar courses. The results indicate that teachers have at their disposal a number of instructional options and the effectiveness of these options is mediated by individual, linguistic, and contextual variables.

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grammarstructuresemanticspragmatics
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Lessons from Good Language Teachers , pp. 219 - 231
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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