Many teachers think that teaching grammar separately is not favorable to learners
since learners only learn the way language is constructed, and very often when they
are given grammatical rules, the learners work well on such cases. However, when
they write or speak, the learners make grammatical mistakes or even unnecessary
ones. Helping learners apply grammatical rules into communicative tasks (for
example, writing and speaking) is very challenging. Therefore, teachers, especially in
the context of EFL, could benefit from learning some alternative teaching approaches
for teaching grammar so that they can integrate grammar or structure into other
language skills in such a way that the goal of learning language is ultimately
achieved.
Therefore, in this paper, I would like to propose a five-step procedure for teaching
grammar that I have developed. This procedure incorporates the notions of practice
and consciousness-raising, explicit and implicit knowledge, and deductive and
inductive approaches for teaching grammar. These concepts will be reviewed before
the description of the teaching procedure.