TAILIEUCHUNG - Descriptive and prescriptive grammar in teaching English

This article aims to make it clear that it is not quite satisfactory if we attribute any language difference between authentic English and the English we are learning and teaching only to the informal style. | 62 Tạp chí Khoa học Viện Đại học Mở Hà Nội 52 02 2019 62-66 DESCRIPTIVE AND PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR IN TEACHING ENGLISH TA T rr Dang Ngoc Huong Date received the article 2 8 2018 Date received the review results 4 2 2019 Date published the article 27 2 2019 Abstract This article aims to make it clear that it is not quite satisfactory if we attribute any language difference between authentic English and the English we are learning and teaching only to the informal style. By analyzing a number of examples the writer assumes that many Vietnamese learners believe that English taught at school and English spoken by native English people share one and the same grammar. In fact the English grammar we learn is just one type of grammar prescriptive grammar and native English people have their own grammar in communication descriptive grammar . Based on some differences the writer offers a number of pedagogical suggestions to deal with the differences between the two types of grammar in English. Keywords satisfactory attribute authentic learners prescriptive grammar descriptive grammar pedagogical suggestions 1. Introduction Since I learned English long ago and until now when I teach English I have always held an idea that language learning means grammar learning. Grammar is defined as the rules by which words change their forms and are combined into sentences LDCE 2010 763 . In other words grammar rules are formulated and learners of a language should learn and use them in writing and speaking if they follow the rules their language use is correct if not it is incorrect. However I sometimes I wonder if the English grammar we learn and teach at school is exactly the grammar native English people use in real life. 2. Food for thought In my teaching life I have been exposed to several varieties of English British English American English Australian English Canadian English. However the experiences below made me think of some pedagogical problems The first case happened when a .

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