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Grammar Teaching: Implicit or Explicit

Based on my 15 years of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teaching experience, the statement “grammar teaching should be implicit, not explicit” could be argued both for and against. Whether to teach grammar as an extracted focus of ELT (English Language Teaching) or more passively as an inductive, integral topic has been the theme of countless debates on the part of institutions, professors, grammarians and language researchers for decades. Grammar is the branch of linguistics dealing with the form and structure of words or morphology, and their interrelation in sentences, called syntax. The study of grammar reveals how language works, an important aspect in both English acquisition and learning.

In the early 20th century grammarians like the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas and the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen began to describe languages and Boas’ work formed the basis of various types of American descriptive grammar study. Jespersen’s work was the fore-runner of such current approaches to linguistic theory such as Noam Chomsky’s Transformational Generative Grammar.

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Distance Learning High School For Autistic Students

Many students with autism, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or Asperger’s Syndrome find traditional high schools both frustrating and overwhelming. Typically, children with ASD or Asperger’s Syndrome are intelligent students with who can develop a keen interest in a particular subject. Often, they are not well rounded, but would like to take advanced classes the subject or two they excel in.

Children with Asperger’s or ASD often struggle socially. One of the symptoms of Asperger’s Syndrome is that people with Asperger’s have trouble reading social cues, whether they’re verbal cues or physical cues. Children with Asperger’s have trouble reading facial expressions. These traits often make it hard for children with Asperger’s or ASD to fit in socially in a traditional high school. Sometimes children with Asperger’s feel isolated and lonely because they have trouble making friends or sustaining relationships. Sometimes children with ASD are targeted by bullies, which can lead to frustration and depression. Parents of children with Asperger’s or ASD often worry for the safety of their children at traditional schools.

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Distance Learning High School For Autistic Students

Many students with autism, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or Asperger’s Syndrome find traditional high schools both frustrating and overwhelming. Typically, children with ASD or Asperger’s Syndrome are intelligent students with who can develop a keen interest in a particular subject. Often, they are not well rounded, but would like to take advanced classes the subject or two they excel in.

Children with Asperger’s or ASD often struggle socially. One of the symptoms of Asperger’s Syndrome is that people with Asperger’s have trouble reading social cues, whether they’re verbal cues or physical cues. Children with Asperger’s have trouble reading facial expressions. These traits often make it hard for children with Asperger’s or ASD to fit in socially in a traditional high school. Sometimes children with Asperger’s feel isolated and lonely because they have trouble making friends or sustaining relationships. Sometimes children with ASD are targeted by bullies, which can lead to frustration and depression. Parents of children with Asperger’s or ASD often worry for the safety of their children at traditional schools.

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