essential english grammar second edition pdf

(Baby never relies on another language to learn its first language). 2 Second language learning must be an imitation of first language learning, as this is the natural way humans learn any language, and so MT has no place in FL lesson.

Advocated teaching of oral skills at expense of every traditional aim of language teaching. New method laid great stress on correct pronunciation and target language from outset.

'Never tell the children anything they can find out for themselves.' (Jesperin 1904) Direct Method based on belief that: 1 Knowing a language was being able to speak it! Primacy of spoken word. It is certainly not understood therefore it can have no effect as far as the moulding of the intellect is concerned and no-one could seriously believe that children could learn their living German tongue from it.' Instead grammar should be acquired inductively by inducing the rules of how the language behaves from the actual language itself. Vietor ('Die Sprachunterricht muss umkehren' 1882) 'This study of grammar is a useless torture.

All reformers were vehemently opposed to teaching of formal grammar and aware that language learning was more than the learning of rules and the acquisition of imperfect translation skills.

Essential english grammar second edition pdf