Die Grammatik und Fremdsprachenunterricht

Abstract

The role of Grammar in foreign language teaching

Grammar and foreign language teaching is a broad subject. Foreign language teaching is about presenting patterns, i.e. explaining and correcting them. The term grammar is used in modern linguistics for different subject areas, e.g. grammar as knowledge or as a teaching of the morphological and syntactic regularities of a natural language. The aim of grammar in foreign language teaching in general is to promote the students’ language proficiency, especially language skills. This article examines the extent to which grammar conveys the regularities of the foreign language to the learners in an internal system of regularities.