Teaching Grammar in Situational Contexts
Öz
While there are many ways to describe or explain grammar, simply, it is defined as a set of
rules about how words change their form and combine with other words to make clauses into
sentences and sentences into paragraphs. Yet an important consideration, having an effect on
the ways language teachers teach grammar is the teachers’ personal ideas on the best way to
teach grammar. In spite of many studies that have been completed in this field, the ideas of EFL
teachers about presenting, practicing, and teaching grammar has not been studied in depth
in Turkey. So, the aim of this article is to discuss the EFL approach to teaching “situational
grammar” as a remedy to the teaching of grammar in the Turkish classroom.
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