Grammar Matters: Integrating Grammar in Communicative Language Teaching Classrooms
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In the field of language education, the Communicative Language Teaching method (CLT) has been widely studied and recognized as the foreign language teaching method that aims to promote learners’ communicative competence. As the core of CLT is effective communication, one of several misconceptions about this particular teaching method is that it ignores grammar teaching and focuses only on speaking. This misconception obviously conflicts with the theory of CLT that includes grammar competence as one component of the four communicative competences. This present article, therefore, aims to highlight the misconception about grammar instruction in CLT, and to discuss how grammar teaching should be taught in CLT classrooms. Furthermore, it offers some ideas of how teachers can integrate grammar through communicative activities and tasks to promote both learners’ communication and learners’ recognition of forms and structure.
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