The primary goal of this handbook is to familiarize adult English
as a second language (adult ESL) instructors with the most
important grammatical concepts and difficulties encountered by
students in and out of the classroom while providing both novice
and experienced instructors with the tools necessary to exemplify
and explain, when necessary, such concepts in a clear and effective
manner. By carefully reviewing the examples, explanations, and
notes contained in this handbook, instructors will learn to employ
the "natural" method (sometimes also referred to as the "direct"
method) in their presentations of several of the most essential
points of English grammar. While this handbook is not intended to
provide an exhaustive review of English grammar, it does aim to
address the most common sources of grammatical difficulty
encountered by teachers and students in typical adult ESL settings.
The examples presented throughout this handbook use Standard
American English and cover a wide range of grammatical concepts at
the beginning, intermediate, and advanced proficiency levels. This
handbook emphasizes practical grammatical concepts, that is, issues
mainly involving English morphology and syntax, along with some
important lexical points. Upon completing their review of the
material presented in this handbook, ESL instructors should be able
to apply the natural method to their presentations of the most
fundamental grammatical topics encountered in the classroom, across
the proficiency levels and independent of theme-specific lesson
content. Although this handbook does not presuppose any specific
linguistic training on the part of the reader and technical
linguistic jargon has been intentionally kept to a minimum, some
basic linguistic terminology has been used out of necessity given
the content of this work. Readers who are unfamiliar with basic
linguistic concepts (such as morphology, syntax, lexicon, aspect,
grammaticality, etc.) should be able to consult standard reference
materials in order to resolve their uncertainties with a minimum of
difficulty. The author has developed and revised this handbook over
the course of many years of training novice and experienced
instructors to teach a broad range of ESL curricula (including
general, academic, and business English at all proficiency levels)
to adult learners in diverse educational settings and instructional
formats (such as private, one-on-one tutorials and multi-level
intensive English programs taught in small and medium-sized
groups). Each grammatical concept presented in this handbook is
accompanied by numerous examples of realistic usage to aid the
reader in understanding those concepts and to assist the instructor
with his or her presentation of those grammatical concepts in the
classroom. Finally, the reader should keep in mind that this
handbook is practical rather than theoretical in nature and has
been specifically designed to serve as a useful addition to the ESL
instructor's professional "tool kit." It is the author's hope that
the reader will find this handbook to be easily approachable and
highly relevant to the issues encountered during his or her daily
instructional responsibilities.
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