Teaching Grammar: How to Use Concept Questions to Elicit Form and Function
Concept Questions are a common elicitation technique in Communicative Approach ESL lesson plans, and are…
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Teach Grammar Using The Communicative Approach: Functions and Structures
This article on teaching grammar focuses on “functions”, what this word means in methodology jargon, and how we can identify functions through context. This article also introduces the connection between function and structure and how these concepts are combined in a grammar ESL lesson that follows the Communicative Approach.
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