CLT

             Dai (2011) demonstrated in her research that integrating grammar teaching with CLT can “make grammar teaching more interesting and appealing and thus improve the students’ ability to use the language” (p. 4). She also recommended two commonly used types of classroom activities to change the boring atmosphere of traditional grammar class by adopting the communicative method in her research. In the first instance, teachers can use role-play to “make the task-based classroom a lively and rich language environment for learners of all abilities” (Nunan, 2001, p.84). They can apply the grammatical knowledge they have learned into practice in the role-play, while teachers can observe and check how much the students have mastered and then pay more attention to the part which needs more improvement in the future. The second type of activity is group discussion. After giving instructions on the grammatical points, the teacher can divide all the students into several groups. Through discussion, the students will “become skilled at cooperating with others, and express their own opinions, ideas, and feelings, guided by the teacher” (Nunan, 2001, p.83). Nunan also pointed out that in group discussion, students “learn how to solve language problems in a systematic way and to decide what language to use in the different situations that their teachers present in the classroom” (p. 84).

           Feel free to check the videos below to learn more about using CLT in grammar teaching.