The purpose of this study is to present an effective teaching-model of communicative English grammar to improve students' communicative competence in Korean middle schools. Grammar in the field of English language education has been excluded to a larg...
The purpose of this study is to present an effective teaching-model of communicative English grammar to improve students' communicative competence in Korean middle schools. Grammar in the field of English language education has been excluded to a large extent since the field of language education has emphasized fluency rather than accuracy to reach the goal of communicative competence in recent years. It has been however in great demand among students who wished to grasp the language ability in a short period of time. Also, learning the grammar rules of a language in a communicative situation is a necessity because it helps language learners understand the phenomena of language as a whole and develop their communicative ability in the language. The study proceeded in three steps: Firstly, a teaching-model of communicative English grammar was designed to improve students' communication ability. It was designed to use presentation, pattern practice, pseudo-communicative activity and communicative activity. Secondly, an experiment was conducted at a middle school using 85 third-grade students. Thirdly, the results of the experiment were analyzed after testing students' knowledge of the grammatical structure of English and their communicative ability. The results of the study indicated that students' ability to understand the sentence structures of English was greatly improved and at the same time their communicative ability to use the sentences was also much improved.