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AFTER READING
1. Swan list seven bad reasons for teaching grammar. Do you agree with him? Add a few more bad
reasons to his list.
2. What does Swan mean by comprehensibility and acceptability? Design and activity that
incorporates these two principles of grammar teaching.
3. Observe learners carrying out a task. To what extent does their performance illustrates the feature
of tasks listed by Richards?
4. What do you think is the role of grammar practice? Do you agree with Ellis that practice has a
limited value in grammar learning?
5. Some applied linguist suggest that grammar is best learned incidentally through, for example,
extensive reading. Do you agree?
6. Should grammar be taught separately or integrated into the four skills of listening, speaking,
reading, and writing?
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