Text Linguistics. Report on Grammar and Language Teaching

Submitted Assignment from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics - English - Grammar, Style, Working Technique, grade: A, University of Western Sydney, course: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language (TESOL), language: English, abstract: The first part of this manuscript analyses a text by describing the following features: its social purpose and context; its audience; its register; its grammatical features at the level of the whole text i.e. its cohesion and coherence; its sentence or clause level grammatical features. Then it designs a series of grammar-focussed learning tasks which fit together in a cohesive learning program based on the text and the grammatical analysis of it, and which enhance the learners understanding of the meaning of the whole text. The second part of this paper briefly reviews current issues in the teaching of grammar in the field of TESOL.