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Teaching ESL Students to "Notice" Grammar  
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Many teachers are confused on how to teach grammar. The form-focused instruction of the audio-lingual method produced students that knew a lot about a language but could not apply what they knew to spontaneous speech. Conversely, the lack of grammar instruction in the Communicative Approach has often produced students who communicate well but lack grammatical competency. Read more
Problems with tenses  
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Dave Willis -19 May, 2008 - 08:26

As I said, in writing my first assignment for the Open University I had problems with tenses. As you will see

More about the past perfect  
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Dave Willis -6 May, 2008 - 10:44

About a week ago I joined a question session on grammar discussing the past perfect:

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