Grammar. Teaching, Practising and Testing

Scientific Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich, language: English, abstract: Grammar can be taught, practiced and tested in various ways. It is certainly sensible to combine different approaches. This means that a teacher should mix traditional methods with modern, especially communicative methods. Most importantly, he/she should not stick to one method rigidly. This essay provides a number of alternative ways of teaching, practicing and testing grammar that serve the linguistic as well as communicative competence.