Teaching and Practising Grammar in a Digital ELT Course Material for Primary School Students

This paper is concerned with how an abstract domain of language knowledge, grammar is presented and treated in a digital English course material for 4-8 class primary school students developed in the cooperation of Miskolc University and KIFÜ (Governmental Information-Technology Development Agency) within the framework of the Complex Instruction Program (Hungarian abbreviation: KIP) [1]. Sample tasks of the material prepared are currently made electronically available by the University of Miskolc in an interactive form on the Moodle platform. The complete units themselves may also be downloaded in .pdf format. The project relied on the fact that the use of the Internet offers a lot of opportunities for language learners to practise, use and extend their knowledge outside classroom contexts and makes it possible to draw on a vast variety of resources, and thus expose students to the language they are learning in an extensive and varied way. As a framework, the Complex Instruction Program [