تفصيل

  • الصفحات : 138 صفحة،
  • سنة الطباعة : 2023،
  • الغلاف : غلاف مقوى ،
  • الطباعة : الأولى،
  • لون الطباعة :أسود،
  • ردمك : 978-9931-08-489-1.

Preface

The field of grammar receives the least attention in language teaching and learning mainly for learners whose English is a second or a foreign language. EFL learners find difficulties in applying grammar rules due to the lack of good background knowledge on grammar rules, although they totally agree that grammar tells how and why to use the language.

Many scholars write about grammar but they over complicate it. This is why we have thought to produce this book aiming at facilitating as much as possible the ways and the activities for our new young students.

As far as the Algerian context is concerned, teachers reinforce the learners’ grammar level from middle school; however, their level is still weak due to the lack of teaching materials that suit their needs in relation to the writing skill, i.e. grammar is taught separately, while it should coordinate in its teaching with modules of writing and reading.

This book is designed for the first year EFL students. It contains basic lectures on English grammar including sentence patterns, articles, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verb classes and tenses which provide ample guidance and practice in sentence building that pave the way for the EFL student to write effectively in the English language. It sets the main rules that can guide the student to form sentences starting from sentence elements mainly subject, verb, object and complement to the different types of sentences. It also facilitates the way for the EFL learner on how to insert nouns with adjectives and adverbs to form different types of sentences.

These lessons are organized into ten units. Each unit outlines the main headings that build the lectures. Each heading is reinforced with activities, even although the book gives a cursory account to the rules, not to the activities. For this reason, the researchers do not include a unit for the key answers by the end of the lectures.

This book provides a thorough citation of the main rules that can help the EFL learner. These rules are reinforced with explanations and examples. The examples are taken from different contexts to give a bird’s eye view on the use of English both in a daily informal setting and a formal context i.e. bridging the gap between speech and writing.

Through their research on grammar rules, EFL students may find views claiming that the grammar rules are changeable and there is a difference between rules used in informal settings, those in standard written forms and literary texts. It is important for learners to know these points so that they can understand when to put the right form.

It is a gratifying task to pave the way for our students through collecting the sum of our experiences and readings as teachers so that they can be put in the right path in learning the English language, hoping that this book will be found useful for beginner learners mainly first-year EFL students.