1. Grammar in Isolation
vs Grammar
in Context
Amos Tan Rurng Jang
Al Samihah Amni bt Dollah @ Abdul Aziz
Munirah bt Hashim

2. Grammar in Isolation
• Teaching separately in a lesson
• Focus on form and meaning only
• Language learning
• Exercise : repetition, manipulation, grammatical
transformation
• Prescriptive/descriptive approaches

3. • To understand grammatical forms and be able to
use them
• Cover the ability to understand grammatical
forms
• Cover the ability to use these grammatical forms
for communicative purpose

4. The purpose for using grammar in
isolation
• To identify students’ own performance
• It helps teacher to set the level and make
improvement on the next lesson
• To make sure pupils recognize the rules and
regulation of grammar
• Ex : past tense, present tense, irregular verbs.

5. • Teacher can selectively choose which grammar
items to cover in this grammar course, so that
the instruction can be effectively focused on
items that are more important.
• Give teachers as well as learners plenty of time
to understand the grammatical forms and
produce them in communication tasks

6. Issues
• Confusing
• Grammar is about rules of language : pupils
become bored and stress (they have to
memorize directly)
• Not enjoying
• Students could not connect the grammar with
their language or the lessons with their lives

7. How to overcome
• Fun activities
• Choose effective methods
• Make discussion
• Activities related with daily situation

8. Grammar in context
• involves teaching grammar in relations to the
context of the situation the utterances are
usually used
• Focus on forms, meaning and usage
• Language acquisition
• Requires commitment to teach
• Specific instruction would be given to individual
students

9. • Applicable while teaching other skills
• Eg: listening, writing, reading, speaking and
language arts.
• Teaching grammar in context provides a
meaningful framework that connects to reality
in the targeted language‖ (Anderson, 2005).
• An approach through which learners can learn
how to form structures correctly, and also how
to use them to communicate meaning (Nunan,
1998, p.103)
• Learners will use grammatical conventions more
effectively in communication if they learn them
in context.

10. HOW TO TEACH GRAMMAR IN
CONTEXT
• Example : using dialogues --> the use of
dialogues generally matches learners‘
expectations of how language is used in the real
world: people use language primarily to talk to
each other‖ (Thornbury, 1999, p.76).

11. reference
• http://prezi.com/w8fgmvng-a8k/grammar-in-isolation/
• http://www.scribd.com/doc/136927500/tsl-3108-TOPIC-2
• http://workpurpose.wordpress.com/2012/07/04/grammar-in-
context-vs-grammar-in-isolation/#jp-carousel-119
• Teaching Grammar in Context: Why and How? By Çağrı Tuğrul
Mart http://www.project-read.com/teaching-grammar-in-
context/