Teaching English Grammar to Beginners a Way to Speak...

Teaching English Grammar to Beginners : A Way to Speak Accurately Some people say that learning foreign language should be an activity in which the learners try to use that language as often as possible, not only try to know about that language which means the learners only try to understand the grammar. They believe that the most important thing in learning foreign language is that the learners can speak , communicate or delivers their ideas to other people, without considering or minding whether in their communication they use grammatically- good utterences or not. This belief is based on the fact that other people can understand the idea we communicate or deliver although we use grammatically-incorrect utterances.The legendary†¦show more content†¦Some of those principles are: First: Use suitable learning material. English is rich of rules. Those rules range from the simplest to the most complicated ones. But actually there is not an easy grammar rule in English. Even the rule about the articles ( a, an , the), which people think as the simplest rule in English, is actually not as easy as they think. Teaching grammar to the beginners needs the teachers to use suitable learning load. Teachers must remember two things, which are; first, the teachers must try to simplify, and even sometimes over simplify, the grammar for the beginners. In this case the teachers must try to make the grammar easy to be understood by the beginners. If the grammar rules they are teaching are too difficult for the beginners, the teachers must make them simpler . For example: the use of That ,This,These and Those. The teacher can use these four words in the daily communication while explaining the name of things around the classroom, for example: this is a blackboard, that is a window, this is a door, these are books, those are pencils,etc. In this case the teachers do not need to give deep explaination about This, That, Those and These. 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