The Role of Grammar

Teaching a language and in particular teaching a language as a foreign language depends on how we perceive the language itself. As Professor Douglas Brown says in his book Principles of language teaching and learning there are no recipes. There isn’t a guaranteed and easy method to reassure success. Every apprentice is unique. Each teacher is unique. And every relationship between teacher and trainee is unique. This means that teaching a language as a foreign language as well as the teaching process in general is a constant effort to achieve the best result possible using the appropriate means and methods. Teaching / Learning Foreign Language according to Evangelia Kaga is not a process of transmitting and mechanistically engaging knowledge but a synthesis of methodological approaches and pedagogical practices so that the students acquire the motivation to learn and use language as a means of communication and access to new knowledge and information.