The
reviewer has already read 3 books that contains of strategies in teaching
grammar. Grammar, everyone thinks that grammar is a difficult subject to
understand. But it all depends on how the teacher teaches grammar.The title of
the first book is Grammar Succes in 20 minutes a day which is written by learning
express (2010) that is mention about the succes way to learn grammar. The
second book is about word study and english grammar which is written by Frederick
W Hamilton (2009), that is mention aboutimportance of the subject and word
families. The third book is about Teaching Grammar in Second Language
Classroom: integrating form focused instruction in communicative language which
is written by Hossein Nassaji aand Sandra Fotos (2011), that is mention about The
changing view of grammar instruction. I'm Fardhi Afindra Putra, as the reviewer
,also a student will give a little information gleaned from several books which
are useful as a guide to teach grammar, with a focus on the teaching of grammar.
Now
we can see people want to say "I chose maths better than English".
This statement may make many of us cringe at the English lessons. For example,
many civil servants who refuse to take the test toefl. In the book about word
study and english grammar, the reviewer find ,why the importance of learning
grammar, because: 1) Lots of incorrect
use of grammar, 2) lack of knowledge about the placement of the word. Now tell
everyone that learning English is a lesson that is easily understood, because
in this book, the reviewer get something if a knowledge about words and
relations, ie, rhetoric and grammar is a tool and a very important tool of the
student. That means knowledge of the grammar that affects a person to learn the
language. I think as a teacher, we must teach the beginner by teaching the most
basic components of the grammar.
In
the book about Grammar Succes in 20 minutes a day, the reviewer find a quick
way to learn grammar is by 1) Understand what the nouns and pronouns 2)
Understand what the verb 3) Understanding of modifiers 4) Understanding the
structure of sentences 5) Understandingof punctuation. I think here the
teachers are required to understand the material. Because every quick way to
learn the grammar has a lot of information on each bagiannya. For example about
punctuation, punctuation has a wide range of different variations on each use,
one exclamation mark that shows strong feeling or command, an example: Open the
door!. From these examples it can be seen that the exclamation point has a
function as a command, and must be implemented. As one of my students tried to
take this information and try out on one of my classes in the future
We
not only teach students about grammar, we also have to provide training to
students to learn grammar. Inthe book about Teaching Grammar in Second Language
Classroom: integrating form focused instruction in communicative language, in
one of the discussion in this book, The reviewer get an idea of what type of
income or exercises to test the students' development of grammar. For example,
with a Focus on Grammar through discourse. Described here the authors focus on
attention to grammar in the discourse. By reading the existing discourse can
encourage students to have awareness in learning grammar. I think the discourse
that should be used is the discourse that appeals to students who will make the
students interested in reading and discourse will lead the students to
understand grammar at the discourse.
From
the above explanation was found why the need to learn grammar because 1) the
use of many incorrect grammar, 2) lack of knowledge about the placement of the
word. This shows that it is very difficult to learn English. But it can be
changed by following in learning express book explanation that describes how
quickly learn English. But the real key is knowledge of grammar described in Frederic’s
book. Here the role of the teacher is also very important, because here the
teacher has an understanding of the lesson. For the addition of students'
understanding of grammar, we also do exercises to encourage understanding of
grammar. One example of the use of discourse that appeals to students. Because
students can read and understand the existing discourse grammar in discourse.
