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ERIC Number: ED268810
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1978
Pages: 20
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Comprehension and Communication, Fine; But What Do You Do about Grammar?
Woodruff, Margaret S.
This paper discusses adaptation of the Total Physical Response technique, as used in a college German course, to the learning of grammar in high school second language courses. It is proposed that direct methods involving physical action can be used to teach and test production of almost any traditional grammar item and retain the motivational advantages of active contextual practice. Specific grammatical objectives and appropriate classroom techniques and activities are described for these areas of grammar: use of appropriate pronoun and verb forms to describe actions as they are performed, giving commands that can be acted out, shifting verb tense or voice to give a more precise description of an action being performed, negating sentences, using the appropriate case of objects of verbs and prepositions, producing possessive adjectives and pronouns, using the correct plural forms of familiar nouns, and changing word order when elements are deleted from or added to a sentence. A list of additional drills is appended. (MSE)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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