The faculty of english philology and translation studies

The object of the work shows the importance of using interactive methods in teaching grammar and finds out their practical usage.
The subject of the work is studying interactive methods in grammar teaching as well as their peculiarities.
The theoretical value of the research paper can be revealed in its novelty and accordance with interactive ways to teach grammar.
The practical value of the paper is determined by the fact that the developed material and proper tasks and exercises make available the use of this work as a manual for learning and translating a foreign language in accordance with the teaching of grammar through interaction.
The paper consists of an introduction and two chapters followed by their peculiar conclusions and the general conclusion and list of used literature and several relevant internet resources.
The first chapter deals with the background study concerning the early methods of teaching grammar and their advantages and disadvantages. Some citations and references are provided from the works previously conducted in this area.
The second chapter is mainly concerned with the use of connections between the usage of interaction in learning grammar and language comprehension.
In conclusion, the theoretical and scientific findings of the research paper are presented.
The list of used literature directs us to the list of all pieces of literature that have been used in the accomplishment of the given work.


CHAPTER I. GRAMMAR AND ITS ESSENCE
1.1 General information about teaching grammar
The translation itself was an academic exercise rather than one which would actually help learners to use language, and an overt focus on grammar was to learn about the target language rather than to learn it. But at the height of the communicative approach to language learning in the 1980s and early 1990s it became fashionable in some quarters to deride so-called old-fashioned methods and, in particular, something broadly labeled "Grammar Translation". As with many other methods and approaches, Grammar Translation tended to be referred to in the past tense as if it no longer existed and had died out to be replaced worldwide by the fun and motivation of the communicative classroom. In an examination of the principal features of Grammar Translation, however, we will see that not only has it not disappeared but that many of its characteristics have been central to language teaching throughout the ages and are still valid today.
The Grammar Translation method embraces a wide range of approaches but, broadly speaking, foreign language study is seen as a mental discipline, the goal of which may be to read literature in its original form or simply to be a form of intellectual development. The basic approach is to analyze and study the grammatical rules of the language, usually in an order roughly matching the traditional order of the grammar of Latin, and then to practice manipulating grammatical structures through the means of translation both into and from the mother tongue. The method is very much based on the written word and texts are widely in evidence. A typical approach would be to present the rules of a particular item of grammar, illustrate its use by including the item several times in a text, and practice using the item through writing sentences and translating it into the mother tongue. The text is often accompanied by a vocabulary list consisting of new lexical items used in the text together with the mother tongue translation. Accurate use of language items is central to this approach.
Generally speaking, the medium of instruction is the mother tongue, which is used to explain conceptual problems and to discuss the use of a particular grammatical structure. It all sounds rather dull but it can be argued that the Grammar Translation method has over the years had a remarkable success. Millions of people have successfully learned foreign languages to a high degree of proficiency and, in numerous cases, without any contact whatsoever with native speakers of the language (as was the case in the former Soviet Union, for example).
There are certain types of learners who respond very positively to a grammatical syllabus as it can give them both a set of clear objectives and a clear sense of achievement. Other learners need the security of the mother tongue and the opportunity to relate grammatical structures to mother tongue equivalents. Above all, this type of approach can give learners a basic foundation upon which they can then build their communicative skills. On the one hand they have motivating communicative activities that help to promote their fluency and, on the other, they gradually acquire a sound and accurate basis in the grammar of the language. This combined approach is reflected in many of the EFL course books currently being published and, amongst other things, suggests that the Grammar Translation method, far from being dead, is very much alive and kicking as we enter the 21st century. Therefore without a sound knowledge of the grammatical basis of the language it can be argued that the learner is in possession of nothing more than a selection of communicative phrases which are perfectly adequate for basic communication but which will be found wanting when the learner is required to perform any kind of sophisticated linguistic task.
The purpose for teaching grammar is not simply for you to be confident about correcting mistakes in children’s work, nor is it to pass on tricks and techniques to be replicated in a mechanistic way. This does not make children writers or lead to good writing.
Teaching grammar effectively is about enabling children to control grammar to express increasingly complex ideas. When grammar is taught well, it can make a significant different to children’s literacy development.
Here are 7 key principles to bear in mind when teaching grammar: