15. How to Teach Grammar to English Learners

Teachers are often puzzled when they approach teaching grammar for a couple of reasons. Particularly if they are native english speakers, they often don’t feel like they know formal grammar rules very well. They just know when a phrase or sentence “sounds right.” The other big struggle for teachers is not knowing what order makes sense to teach grammar rules to their students. But the bottom line is ESL students do need to learn grammar so that they have a framework, a safety net, to re...