Teaching language from grammar to grammaring

• Main Author: Larsen-Freeman, Diane (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Thomson/Heinle 2003
• Series: TeacherSource
• Subjects: English language > Foreign speakers > Study and teaching; Language and languages > Study and teaching
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 A must-read for every language teaching professional, Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring explores the regular, predictable elements of language as well as the potential creativity of its underlying system. By combining a wide range of view points with her own personal experiences and studies, Diane Larsen-Freeman challenges the static descriptive ideas of grammar, based on rules, and promotes the more fluid and dynamic notions of reason-driven grammaring, which she defines as "the ability to use grammar structures accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately." The reader is left not with an encyclopedic set of definitions, but rather with a deeper understanding of the organic nature of language and its acquisition, and a honed set of tools with which to approach language in language teaching.