A presentation-transmission approach to teaching grammar assumes that there is something the learners don’t know, and that the teacher’s role is to provide them with that knowledge. An emergent view of grammar, on the other hand, starts from the assumption that there is something the learners can already do, and that the teacher’s role is to help them to do it more effectively”. (Thornbury, 2005). Based on this conception and considering the alternatives below as implications of the emergent view of grammar, identify each one as True (T) or False (F).
( ) Work with activities which are compatible with a syllabus of pre-selected grammar items.
( ) Work based on texts and topics rather than based on a structural syllabus.
( ) Generate language and then look for items and patterns.
( ) Talk to the learners and scaffold their emergent language.
( ) Investigate and experiment demanding and meaningful activities.
Mark the alternative in which the sequence of the items above is CORRECT.