I have never taken a university course that focused on grammar and vocabulary and look forward to this one. I anticipate learning meaningful and interesting ways to teach grammar rules at the same time as learning the rules myself.
I think grammar has had a bad reputation in the past because it has often been taught in isolated situations where memorization of rules has been the primary way to learn them. Applying the rules to relevant and authentic situations has often been missing in the learning process which results in forgetting the rule.
As an elementary school teacher, I have thought of learning vocabulary as acquiring new concepts. However, this would not necessarily be the case for many ESL students. They already have a vast amount of knowledge in their first language. Therefore, learning vocabulary would involve associating the English word with the corresponding concept in their first language.
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