Many teachers complain of Consciousness Raising Approach to teaching of Grammar especially when it comes to low achieving students. Therefore, they opt for the deductive method, trying to store rules in the students’ minds from the very start. The process of learning here is quite teacher-centered which pushes him to make a lot of efforts instead of employing the analytical skills of the students, which is time and effort saving.
Although the CR / discovery approach might sound challenging to implement with certain classes, this lesson sample below will help you to simplify your CR based lesson to fit any level.
The lesson is about Gerunds & Infinitives:
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Thank you for taking the trouble to help us understand and test this approach in our classes. However, teaching grammar, especially with lower achievers / beginners in low classes, is supposed to be more communicatively than any other method for the simple reason that nowadays learners are no longer good readers with some exceptions of course.