Lesson report form for my grammar lesson

1.-The main grammar today’s lesson was:

….a) PEDAGOGICAL… BECAUSE…
**IT IS DESIGNED TO TEACH SOMEONE HOW TO USE A LANGUAGE.
In this case, I told my Ss that the present continuous tense was used to describe actions taking place now, in the present. (At the moment they are talking)

**IT IS ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO USEFULNESS AND EASE OF LEARNING.
Its utility lies in describing the actions they are doing. The easy of learning – they already knew some verbs, the verb to be, and gerund. Therefore, the tense was going to be easy to be explained and therefore, to be learned by Ss.

**IT CONTAINS CHAPTERS WHICH TEND TO BE SHORT AND CONTAIN VERY BRIEF
GRAMMATICAL EXPLANATIONS
Regarding the question, the explanation was short and brief in each activity, I tried they remembered the structure of the tense before starting the next one.

**IT CONTAINS CHAPTERS WHICH CONSIST MOSTLY OF EXERCISES THAT HELP THE READER PRACTICE AND INTERNALIZE
All of the Ss could practice and internalize the rules through the different stages, activities, and exercises.

**THE VARIOUS STRUCTURES AS WELL AS VOCABULARY AND PRONUNCIATION
I decided, according to my need’s group, to use only the affirmative way of the present continuous tense in order not to confuse them. Besides, I assumed they already knew some verbs so my class was based on the main verbs they knew. About pronunciation, I consider they were corrected immediately in order not to create the bad habit of pronouncing as they want but it must be pronounced.

**IT IS WRITTEN FOR ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN LEARNING A LANGUAGE
To this matter, they are interested in finishing the high school so this is a prerequisite to finish it.

….b) GENERATIVE… BECAUSE…
GENERATE, SPECIFY AND PREDICT SENTENCES SUCH AS: “HE PLAYS THE PIANO.” THE BASIC AREAS OF STUDY INCLUDE PHONOLOGY (THE STUDY OF THE SOUND PATTERNS OF LANGUAGE), MORPHOLOGY (THE STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE AND MEANING OF WORDS), SYNTAX (THE STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES), AND SEMANTICS (THE STUDY OF LINGUISTIC MEANING).

I can say that I also used Generative Grammar because my Ss were able to predict the next verb with –ing. Therefore, they predict sentences as “she is eating” “I am writing”, etc.
I also included phonology when they talked because I tried to correct them when the pronunciation was not the correct. Morphology and Syntax were also used when teaching the correct structure and meaning of the present continuous tense as well as semantics.

….c) DESCRIPTIVE…BECAUSE…
IT ACCOUNTS NOT ONLY TO SYNTAX AND MORPHOLOGY BUT ALSO PHONETICS AND MORPHOLOGY, AS WELL AS SEMANTICS AND /OR LEXIS (VOCABULARY).
It is also used as generative grammar. I’m sure I did use as I explained above.

d) PRESCRIPTIVE… It focuses on the rules and makes possible the standardization of languages to make communication easier between different dialect regions.

e) MENTAL… internalized system is the mental structure that guides every day linguistic behavior; it includes competence (the knowledge of the language) and performance (the actual use of the language in concrete situations)

f) TRANSFORMATIONAL… Specific transformations applied to certain basic structures. There are active sentences and from them, we can make transformations which are passive sentences.

g) TRADITIONAL … Words vary in form according to their grammatical function: e.g. book, books; write, wrote.


2.-The main focus today’s lesson was:
a) Mechanics (e.g. punctuation and capitalization)
….b) RULES OF GRAMMAR (E.G. SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT; PRONOUN USE)
….c) COMMUNICATIVE USE OF GRAMMAR (E.G. CORRECT USE OF PAST TENSE FORMS IN NARRATIVE)
d) Other

3.-The amount of class time spent on grammar work was:
….A) THE WHOLE CLASS PERIOD
b) Almost all of the class period
c) Less than that (_______ minutes)

4.-Teacher decided to teach grammar items:
a) According to what was in the textbook
….B) ACCORDING TO WHAT WAS IN THE COURSE SYLLABUS
c) Based on the students’ performance on a test
d) Based on errors in oral an written work

5.-Teacher taught grammar by:
….A) EXPLAINING GRAMMAR RULES
….B) USING VISUAL AIDS AND REALIA
c) Presenting Ss errors
d) Giving Ss practice exercises from a textbook
e) Giving Ss practice exercises that I designed

6.-When assigning student work on grammar, the teacher had SS
….A) STUDY RULES OF GRAMMAR
….B) PRACTICE EXERCISES ORALLY
….C) DO SENTENCES OR PARAGRAPHS USING SPECIFIC GRAMMAR RULES OR SENTENCE PATTERNS
….D) MATCH SENTENCES TO USE THE STRUCTURES AS WELL AS WRITE DOWN SOME EXAMPLES c) Do exercises for homework
e) Do exercises based on errors noted in their writing
f) Identify and correct grammar errors in writing
g) Keep a personal record of the errors they make

SOURCES:
The Lesson report form for my grammar lesson was taken from:Richards, J.C., & Lockhart, Ch., (1996) “Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms” p. 19 Cambridge: UK. Cambridge University Press

Soton (2008) “Introduction to traditional grammar” Retrieved 16th of March, from: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wpwt/notes/grammar.htm

Scribd (2007) “Transformative –Generative Grammar” Retrieved 16th of March, from: http://www.scribd.com/doc/240279/Transformative-Generative-Grammar

Scribd (2007) “Transformative –Generative Grammar” Retrieved 16th of March, from: http://www.scribd.com/doc/240279/Transformative-Generative-Grammar

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http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29-GRAMMAR.html

Odlin, T, (1994) “Perspectives on Pedagogical Grammar” Cambridge p.2 14

Glossary of Linguistic (2004) “what is a reference grammar?” Retrieved 21th of March, from: http://www.sil.org/LINGUISTICS/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAReferenceGrammar.htm

Wikipedia.org (2010) “Communicative Language Teaching” Retrieved 16th of March, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicative_language_teaching

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