Stage 2 guidelines for speaking: Grammar

Here are some grammar objectives for Stage 2 for speaking:

• To recombine learned material and new vocabulary to create new utterances of the following types:

  • Simple sentences
  • Some complex sentences
  • Questions and answers

• To express relations between clauses, such as:

  • Cause and effect
  • Chronological sequence
  • Purpose
• To link sentences together to relate simple sequences of events, such as procedures and narratives
• To improve accuracy in government and agreement features within clauses and sentences

Here are some grammar strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for speaking:

Analysis Look for examples of different kinds of complex sentences in natural texts you collect and notice the order of the elements and the connectors between clauses. Practice Use accuracy practice techniques to work on agreement features, such as gender or noun class agreements or verb-subject agreements. Selective attention Choose one grammatical feature at a time and listen for agreements when people talk. Auditory representation Track people speaking on your Audio Archive texts, on the radio, or on television.

Here are some grammar techniques for Stage 2 guidelines for speaking:

The Record for Correction technique

• The Series technique
• The Picture Descriptions technique
• The Shared Experiences technique
• The Familiar Stories technique
• The Tense Practice technique
• The Clause Type Practice technique
• The Part of Speech Placement technique

Here are some grammar activities for Stage 2 guidelines for speaking:

Try out a text you have learned through the Series method on sympathetic and friendly new acquaintances. Recount your understanding of how some procedure is done in this society, then ask if you understood it correctly. You may get a new version of your series text.

• Take a picture of your home country and describe what it is like where you come from, or tell someone what happened to you yesterday.

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for speaking: Grammar
• In overview module: Stage 2: Speaking modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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