Using oral activities to teach grammar communicatively to first year non English major students at Vietnam University of Commerce

Tóm tắt Using oral activities to teach grammar communicatively to first year non English major students at Vietnam University of Commerce: ... learners always follow the old trace, that is, learning terminology, memorizing rules, doing mechanical exercises, such as sentence patterns and further practice. As Hopkins et al (1994: 157) assumes that it is boring to teach grammar but hardly any teachers ignore it completely. Grammarian...gh time and enough opportunities communicate and to receive feedback on attempts at producing meaningful language, errors will gradually diminish (Corder, 1981; Selinker, 1972, 1992). Thanks to that students will learn grammar better. 1.4.3. Characteristics of a successful oral activity Ac...study was conducted at VCU where students come from all parts of Vietnam. The students experienced traditional method of English teaching at high schools and learning used to focus on reading and writing but not listening or speaking. Thus, they had very few chances to speak English. In fact, ...