Grammar and the Language Teacher

Language Teaching Methodology

by Martin Bygate, Alan Tonkyn, Eddie Williams

The main aim of this collection is to define the type or types of grammar that teachers need to know and use to be effective. It addresses four areas in which grammar is relevant to language teachers: grammar and grammars, teachers' knowledge of grammar, grammar and learning, and grammar and teaching. Many of the papers are adapted from those presented at the BAAL conference in 1992 on the teaching and learning of grammar.

269 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1994

About the author

Martin Bygate is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. He is a graduate of the University of Leicester, where he read French. He holds an MA in Linguistics from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. from the University of London Institute of Education.

He has worked as a teacher-trainer in a number of countries including France, Morocco, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, and as a lecturer at the School of Education, University of Leeds. His main research interests are in oral second language learning, particularly the use of pedagogic tasks, the development of oral second language proficiency, dimensions of teacher talk, and classroom interaction.

From 1999 to 2004 he was co-editor of the Applied Linguistics Journal published by Oxford University Press.