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¶ … students acquire a grasp of English grammar. Researchers rued the conventional rule-based approach that makes students memorize and learn grammar by rote. They sought another more effective one.
More specifically, written English is an important skill for business people. Many of them have a poor grasp of the written language and this effects their communication and accordingly their impact on clients and colleagues as wells student if and when they teach). To investigate better and more effective ways of teaching grammar, the article analyzed the different methods and assessed which were more effective.
The question was which of the various grammar methods used through the years created in order to teach grammar taught grammar in a more effective...
Which did students find easier to grasp and which helped students acquire an effective grasp of the English language.
Methods
Different researchers created and tested options to the rule-based grammar approach. Models included:
1. The sentence based approach -- by Hillocks and Smith (2003), who gave students a series of short sentences in a set (from two to as many as eight or nine) and asked them to use all of the ideas in these sentences to create a new, more structurally complex sentence.
2. Correcting errors -- some researchers believe that having students search for and mark grammatical errors would improve their grasp. Johansen and Shaw (2003) crated their glossing approach which uses 5 steps:
A. teacher evaluates students' writing and singles out errors
B. teacher highlights errors that she wants students to consider
C. teacher asks student to correct errors
D. student writes the grammatical rule…
In short, researchers found that students can improve their grammar lessons by using certain techniques such as in-context writing, sentence combining, glossing, and error labeling that would help them put their learning into practice.
Source
Quible, ZK & Grifin, Q (2007) Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers? Journal of Education for Business, 32-36
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