Teaching Language: From Grammar to Grammaring By Diane Larsen-Freeman Pablo Meza Oscar González

Chapter 3: The Dynamics of Language (Grammaring)

What is Grammaring? Classic way to define grammar: New way to define grammar: Prescriptive Grammar as skill or dynamic process Descriptive Internal-Mental Pedagogical

Over-Time Dynamism “Language changes through the time” Early English Modern English The second-person pronoun: THEE (Subject pronoun, singular) THOU (Object pronoun, singular) YE (Subject pronoun, plural) YOU (Object pronoun Plural) You = Subject, Object, Singular, Plural

Over-Time Dynamism: Controversy ●Language Deterioration ●Shock to Language Learners

Real-Time Dynamism “Factors’ influence over language’s use in a real time processes.” ●The environment ●Context ●Interlocutors

Stasis Language Description Linguistic Description: It’s the work of objectively analysing and describing how language is actually used by a group of people in a speech community. ●Saussure’s categories to divide language: Langue = the abstract system of the shared code Parole = The individual utterances of speech ●Chomsky’s language system categories: Competence = Idealized speaker’s knowledge of his/her language system Performance = The actual use of language in a concrete situations

Organic Dynamism “The dynamic connection that is made at the intersection of Over-time and Real-time Dynamism.” ●Language does not change of its own accord. ●Changes in a language are not usually the product of willful attempts on the part of the user.

Organic Dynamism “Language as a machine as well as an organism” “A language is to be identified with a living capability by which speakers produce and understand utterances, not with the observed products of the acts of speaking and writing”

The Dynamism of Interlanguage “The developing interlanguage system of a language learners who are open to learning a Second language”

Chapter 4: The Three Dimensions

The Three Dimensions: Form Consists of the visible or audible units: Sound ----> Phonology Written symbols ----> Graphology Signs ----> Semiology Inflectional morphemes,function words, ---> Morphology Syntax structure ---> Syntax

The Three Dimensions: Meaning “It is related to Semantics which is the study of meaning encoded in language”

The Three Dimensions: Use “It is related to pragmatics which is what people mean by the language they use.”

“ Question Time!” Have you ever realized about any kind of language dynamism in everyday life? What is the opinion of your family about the changes in your L1? Is it possible to communicate in a foreign language, if you know random items of vocabulary?

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