* Cognitive approaches to grammar are theories of grammar that relate grammar to mental processes and structures in human cognition. General features of a cognitive ...
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* Cognitive approaches to grammar are theories of grammar that relate grammar to mental processes and structures in human cognition. General features of a cognitive approach to grammar teaching are: 1, Language is not an autonomous cognitive faculty. 2, Grammar is conceptualization. 3, Knowledge of language emerges from language use.
* Type of language learner would find a cognitive approach to grammar teaching/learning most effective. The best way to teach grammar is:
- Students need to understand the
situation.
- Communicative way – first practice,
then rule.
- Deductive and inductive.
- Test teach the test.
- Errors help them notice the gap.
- Creating situations for practice
- Understanding meaning from context
- Teachers need to present the rules.
- Asking concept questions
- Students need to notice the patterns
and identify if right or wrong.