Advantage and disadvantage of studying English grammar

Advantage and disadvantage of studying
English grammar
I. Introduction
We learn grammar because the public wants us to, indeed demands it. For if there is a literacy "crisis," then he obvious solution must be to get "back to the basics." And what could be more fundamental to language arts instruction than a rigorous component of "grammar"? But that's not good enough. The wide and uncritical public acceptance of the need for ram- mar instruction should not make the question "Why?" A moot one for us, the language instruction professionals. We must have academic answers to justify spending the time, a rationale which explains how studying grammar fosters skills or enriches content we want students to learn.
Learning English grammar is not easy to learn because it has many forms and differences usages especially in the macro skills of English, so some students say that study English grammar is not importance for our macro-skills and some say that study English grammar is very importance for our macro-skills. Because of these ideas I would like to discus some reasons about this topic whether studying English is more advantages or disadvantages.
II. Discussion and finding
- What is Grammar?
the word grammar has to mean "the set of organizing principles which native speakers intuitively follow." In this sense grammar is the unconscious knowledge which we learned as very young children during language acquisition. Why should we study English Grammar? you know how to put words together in a sensible order and add the right endings. Whether or not you've ever opened a grammar book, you know how to produce combinations of sounds and of letters that others can understand. After all, English was used for a thousand years before the first grammar books ever appeared. But how much do you know about grammar. Grammar is the system of a language. People sometimes describe grammar as the "rules" of a language; but in fact no language has rules. Grammar provides the rules for putting words together, and instruction often focuses on the form and inflection of wordsThe following is the six reasons for study English grammar.
- Accepting the Challenge: "Because It's There." People are constantly curious about the world in which they live, and wish to understand it and (as with mountains) master it. Grammar is no different from any other domain of knowledge in this respect.
- Being Human: language is involved with almost everything we do as human beings. We cannot live without language. To understand the linguistic dimension of our existence would be no mean achievement.
- Exploring Our Creative Ability: Our grammatical ability is extraordinary. It is probably the most creative ability we have. There is no limit to what we can say or write, yet all of this potential is controlled by a finite number of rules. How is this done?
- Solving Problems: Nonetheless, our language can let us down. We encounter ambiguity, and unintelligible speech or writing. To deal with these problems, we need to put grammar under the microscope, and work out what went wrong.
- Learning Other Languages: Learning about English grammar provides a basis for learning other languages. Much of the apparatus we need to study English turns out to be of general usefulness.
- Increasing Our Awareness: After studying grammar, we should be more alert to the strength, flexibility, and variety of our language, and thus be in a better position to use it and to evaluate others' use of it.
III. Advantages and Disadvantages of Grammars
1. Advantage of Grammars
The learning a foreign language was considered to be merely a part of a liberal education or an intellectual exercise through the study of grammar and literature. It was automatically assumed that anyone studying foreign language as a major field was going to be either a teacher, an interpreter, or a translator and had no other career options. There is still a need for people in those professions. There is also a growing need for individuals who possess advanced skills in foreign languages and are trained in various technical areas. This is a result of increased activity in international business, the inflow of large amounts of foreign capital to the United States, increased internationalization, and an expanded awareness of the need to conduct not only business but also diplomatic relations in the language of the host country. . Given that some kind of formal grammar seems to be taught in most school systems outside the Anglo-Saxon world (Hudson 1998), and given that it is usually taught for the sake of its effects on writing, there must (one would think) be some research on its effectiveness. This bibliography is meant to grow, so I welcome suggestions for addition or correction. When talking about language skills, the four basic ones are: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- Writing Skill
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). Writing may use abstract characters that represent phonetic elements of speech, as in Indo-European languages, or it may use simplified representations of objects or concepts, as in east-Asian and ancient Egyptian pictographic writing forms. However, it is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.
Writing is an extension of human language across time and space. Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form (Robinson, 2003, p. 36). In both Mesoamerica and Ancient. Egypt writing may have evolved through calendrics and a political necessity for recording historical and environmental events.

- Speaking Skill
Speaking a language, whether it is our first or second language, grammatical mistakes will be made. The aim of this essay is to look into what kinds of mistakes some Swedish learners of English make when speaking English and to analyze why these mistakes are made. The essay also aims at looking into what grammar teaching can look like in Sweden and how some teachers look upon their students’ oral proficiency.
The method used for this study was a qualitative one, namely interviews. Twelve students, eight in grade seven and four in grade nine, and two teachers were interviewed. During the interviews with the students a Dictaphone was used. When interviewing the teachers notes were taken, and these have been the foundation of the analysis. results showed that many of the mistakes made by the students seemed to originate in transfer from their first language.
- Listening Skill
Listening is a critical part of communication, and poor listening can contribute to a host of interpersonal and organizational problems. Because a great deal of communication time is spent listening, errors are often costly. Communications research indicates that listening errors are common; organizational members often listen inadequately, hindering personal and organizational success.
There are two major types of listening: recall listening and empathic listening. With recall listening, a person attempts to correctly interpret and remember the content of what another person says. Recall listening can be improved greatly by minimizing distractions and practicing other good listening habits. Empathic listening involves expressing certain attitudes toward the speaker, such as openness to their message, enthusiasm, and concern. A good empathic listener will use nonverbal signals like nodding and eye contact to indicate a willingness to hear the message.
- Reading Skill
Reading of difficult classical texts is begun early. Little attention is paid to the content of texts, which are treated as exercises in grammatical analysis. Often the only drills are exercises in translating disconnected sentences from the target language into the mother tongue. Little or no attention is given to pronunciation.
2. Disadvantages of Grammars
The Grammar may make the language learning experience uninspiring and boring. The Grammar Translation Method may also left the students with a sense of frustration when they travel to countries where the studied language is used (they can’t understand what people say and have to struggle mightily to express themselves at the most basic level. This method neither approaches nor encourages the students’ communicative competence. This method requires few specialized skills on the part of teachers. Grammar rules and Translation Tests are easy to construct and can be objectively scored. Many standardized tests of foreign languages still do not attempt to test communicative abilities, so students have little motivation to go beyond grammar analogies, translations and other written exercises.
Writing the paper on different types and forms of teacher and peer feedback in writing instruction for the purposes of understanding their advantages and disadvantages to improve the process of learning. I'm writing this entry in the hope of both sharing the ways it is done in my classroom and having some discussion about your approaches to giving feedback on your students writing. Students receive different types of feedback on their writing, such as peer feedback on their first draft and teacher commentary on the second one. Peer feedback is given to students in class and has to address the questions about the content, organization and the mechanics of their peers’ essays at a basic level.
Reading so far shows a number of directions in which the system of feedback might’ve described can be improved. The teacher feedback should be made more specific and focused. Being selective is very important not to overwhelm the students with the amount of correction made in their drafts and to let the teacher save some time on commenting on the students' papers, which is one of the most time-consuming activities anyway. Make good use of peer feedback they should be systematically trained how to do it, with one of the suggestions being the teacher using one of the student's papers to model good examples of giving feedback.
Conclusion
Indeed I studied and researched by internet and some books that writing about Grammar I can assess that the advantage of studying grammar is the language that makes it possible for us to talk about language. Grammar names the types of words and word groups that make up sentences not only in English but in any language. As human beings, we can put sentences together even as children, can all do grammar. But to be able to talk about how sentences are built, about the types of words and word groups that make up sentences that knows about grammar. People associate grammar with errors and correctness. But knowing about grammar also helps us understand what makes sentences and paragraphs clear and interesting and precise. Grammar can be part of literature discussions, when I and other students closely read the sentences in poetry and stories. And knowing about grammar means finding out that all languages and all dialects follow grammatical patterns.











Recommendation
Students benefit much more from learning a few grammar keys thoroughly than from trying to remember many terms and rules. Experiment with different approaches until you find the ones that work the best for you and your students. Some teachers focus on showing students how phrases add rich detail to sentences. Other teachers find that sentence diagrams help students see the organization of sentences. Some use grammar metaphors some emphasize the verb as the key part of speech, showing students how the sentence is built around it and how vivid verbs create vivid sentences. Whatever approaches you takes to grammar; show students how to apply it not only to their writing but also to their reading and to their other language arts activities.