Building Language Awareness in an EFL Classroom
Keywords:
Prescriptive English grammar, Descriptive English grammar, EFL teachingAbstract
In an EFL classroom, teachers are encouraged to help students establish fundamental language awareness when acquiring a second language. It is important to first have a common knowledge of the history, development, and present situation of the two main approaches (prescriptive and descriptive grammar) in grammar analysis. Based on this, EFL teachers are asked to make a balance between these two approaches when they are confronted with students of different learning needs, styles, strategies, or abilities.
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