Task-based grammar teaching of English

Task-based grammar teaching of English

Where cognitive grammar and task-based language teaching meet

von Susanne Niemeier

The focus on communication in TBLT often comes at the expense of form. In this book, the task-based approach is enhanced and coupled with insights into (cognitive) grammar, an approach which sees grammar as meaningful. The book shows how grammar teaching can be integrated into a communicative lesson in a non-explicit way, i.e., "by the backdoor". The learners are involved in situations that they may also encounter outside their classrooms and they are given communicative tasks they are to work on and solve, usually with a partner or in small groups. What teachers need to invest for preparing such lessons is their own creativity, as they have to come up with communicative situations which guide the learners into using a specific grammatical structure. The book first discusses the didactic and the linguistic theories involved and then translates these theoretical perspectives into actual teaching practice, focusing on the following grammatical phenomena: tense, aspect, modality, conditionals, passive voice, prepositions, phrasal verbs, verb complementation, pronouns and articles.

Highlights

• 1Erkenntnisse der kognitiven Grammatik werden für den Unterricht nutzbar gemacht2Unterricht auf der Basis von kognitiver Grammatik wird zum ersten Mal systematisch in einem TBLT-Rahmen umgesetzt 3Hilfestellung und Ideen für Englisch-Lehrende, die Grammatikunterricht erteilen müssen (also quasi alle EnglischlehrerInnen) und diesen ansprechender gestalten möchten

Über den Autor

Prof. Dr. Susanne Niemeier lehrt und forscht in den Bereichen Angewandte Linguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik des Englischen im Institut für Anglistik an der Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz.