Grammar Is necessary to English Learning

Grammar is Necessary to English Learning Abstract：Once upon a time, there was a hottest discussion that “whether the students should learn the ruler of English grammar. Some linguists hold the idea that the priority of English learning is to gain the communication ability, mainly stressing the meaning of the language but the form. So language should serve to communication. And they think it’s proper when the leaner s make grammar errors when they communicate with others. However not all people agree with that. Take the famous linguist Widdowson for example, he stressed the importance of the grammar learning and said “you can’t express yourself without the vocabulary. But if you don’t learn grammar, your words are just like the non-bone chickens.”So next I’ll show the necessary of grammar and make comment on the thoughts which regardless the grammar learning.

Key words: English grammar 、importance

1, the importance of English grammar

A, what grammar to English learning is mortar to building

Take English vocabularies as the bricks of the language and grammar as the mortars that hold those bricks together. Without the mortar, the bricks can become tumbling down! A lack of grammatical skills can cause embarrassing misunderstandings. One of my foreign teacher ever said: “Based on my experience in China, I find it easier to understand badly pronounced, grammatically correct English, than well pronounced Chi nglish. Exposure to a language helps you learn the grammar implicitly; to know the rules without needing to explain them- which is hard if you're not in a good learning environment (where the language is not spoken). Therefore, in that case, learning key grammar rules is more important than vocabulary building.” So we can’t deny the importance of grammar which is an essential and significant aspect of a language.

B, what grammar to English learning is rules to social management Grammar is the language use rule. And it manages the vocabulary’s arrangement, just as the rule to social management. Providing, there is no rule in social, we can easily imagine how chaotic the world would be.

At the same time, there are several sentence patterns which can express some special mood. When we want require somebody not do something euphemistically, we may say “you would not smoke here, will you?” it’s polite. But if you just say “no smoking”, it sounds aggressive and spur others’ anger easily. Grammar has positive guidance to the grammar knowledge. Mastering and applying grammar have a great effect on getting speech ability. Once we can master grammar flexibly, we can understand the phenomenon of language

and make our ideas well delivered. So we can use the right sentence to communicate and read fast with efficiency.

It is a rule to require us how to express oneself with these scattered words. It makes us easy to understand and to be understood for it narrows down the meanings of the same vocabularies.

In the language teaching system, almost of language teaching approaches take the grammar as a requisite aspect. Take the situational language teaching for example, it emphasizes the following points (that concerns about grammar):

Speech is regarded as the basis of language and structure was viewed as being at the heart of speaking ability;

Accuracy in both pronunciation and grammar is regarded as crucial;

2, the response to opponents

A, people without grammar learning can also communicate well with others

①the little children can acquire their mother tongue, even though they don’t know what grammar is.

②some illiteracies haven’t learnt in the school. They can chat and live a life in the foreign countries when they live there and learn enough necessary knowledge···

Disproof:the children use the potential ability to imitate their parents’ behavior and sounds. They have the nature to receipt others’ influence. They just like the blank paper; you can draw every thing on it if you want. But to the adults, their papers have been written down a lot of things. So to embellish the life paper, you have to learn some techniques to make sure you are really advancing. English is different from Chinese. We can’t change the model of language upon Chinese. So we have to master the grammar of English to learn English well.

We know some Chinese went abroad to work. Some of which had never contracted with English. But when they lived there, they can speak English better than some college students. In fact, they can speak English fluently and correctly, but they can’t talk about culture or science with others for they just mastered some simple structure of language, which is adequate to daily life. But to be a member of the new generation, we must be advanced in every aspect of science and literature, which needs English to make our thoughts cross.

B, in English-spoken countries or different areas, there are so many different ways to say things, varying from the south to the north, the east to the west.

Disproof: usually the differences come from the daily life just like jargons or idioms, which are informal. That is, tough there are some differences in grammar at different places; we can’t take for granted that the grammars are different as the various countries. Upon many cases, it turns out that we can communicate with others when we have learnt a language without considering the special parlances in different areas.

C, it’s difficult to lean English grammar for it is boring and tiring. Disproof: the mainly reason is that we scarcely apply the grammar that we recite for we do not speak English in our daily life. And some students can’t free from the influence of their mother tongue’s rules. In fact, if we have proper ways to learn English grammar, the grammar won’t be trouble that confronts us but effective way to master English efficiently. The following is an approach to learn grammar:

1, Make a plan

2, Try to identify common mistakes. Find out what grammar points are often difficult for speakers of your native language. Pay extra attention to learning those grammar points.

3, Find some grammar exercise. Focus on just one grammar point each time you study.

4, you should pay more attention to grammar when you read English.

5, Translate from your native language into English.

6, Ask native speakers for advice.

All in all, English grammar is essential to English learning. We may not learn English grammar deliberately in our daily life. But to read its literature or in order to benefit from the mental discipline and intellectual and intellectual development, we should study grammar and use it flexible. So we can’t

by-pass the importance of grammar!