the Words Made Flesh

Straight to the heart  a vastly monumental movie

  Grammar: the accuracy of calling its teaching an art Grammar learning and the implicit comprehension of language patterns Considering one of the definitions of art as “the process of making the familiar unfamiliar”, grammar teaching can justifiably be paralleled to art. Grammar estranges language, it makes it look unfamiliar. For us, teachers, it takes long and intensive training to teach grammar accurately and comprehensively, and we need to instruct grammar in a way that learners want to remain engaged.   Learners’ attitudes and responses to the scientific side of language Students respond to grammar defensively: we observe how they silently withdraw and how they reluctantly, or minimally engage to grammar activities. Grammar seems to be the point where language makes no sense. Especially English grammar. Jonathan   Rigdon (1903) voiced the complexity of English grammar early on: “he who can analyse the English sentence is well prepared to analyse anything ...