Open AccessQuestioning Grammar Teaching Norms: The Case of the English Tenses
Author(s) -
Daniela Doboș
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
linguaculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2285-9403
pISSN - 2067-9696
DOI - 10.47743/lincu-2012-3-2-277
Subject(s) - pleading , grammar , linguistics , traditional grammar , english grammar , computer science , teaching method , psychology , mathematics education , philosophy , political science , law
After briefly considering the debates centred on the teaching of L2 grammar, the paper considers the difficulties related to the teaching and learning of the English tenses while pleading for an alternative teaching approach based on the logic inherent in the grammatical system and categories.