What Grammatical Knowledge is Powerful for Specialist Language Teachers?
What Grammatical Knowledge is Powerful for Specialist Language Teachers?
September 10 from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Summary
On 10 September, we were pleased to have Dr Chris Corbel present the third in his series of webinars for VicTESOL. This webinar focussed on powerful grammatical knowledge for specialist language teachers. Chris first briefly outlined the concept of powerful knowledge. He then explained two types of powerful grammatical knowledge relevant for specialist language teachers:
- Grammatical know-how – procedural knowledge, the skill of ‘grammaring’. This means the ability to apply grammatical constructions for communicative purposes, to teach grammatical constructions for communicative purposes and to learn about grammatical constructions.
- Grammatical know-that – propositional knowledge, threshold concepts. This means understanding the core concepts that underpin grammar, not mastery of the details.
This session provided lots of grammatical food for thought for both beginner teachers and experienced EAL teachers.
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