4.3.2. The proposed Grammar Activities
The common teaching strategies that tend to develop
grammar activities tend to develop the kind of automatic
control of grammatical structures that will enable learners
to use them productively and spontaneously. It is common
to distinguish a number of different types of practice
activities -mechanical practice, contextualized practice, and
communicative practice. Exploratory practice consists of
various types of controlled activities where students are
provided with sufficient data to work on as a background to
explore the rules of the item to be taught. Contextualised
practice is still controled, but involves an attempt to
encourage learners to relate form to meaning by showing
how structures are used in real-life situations. Communicative
the practice entails various kinds of `gap' activities
which require the learners to engage in authentic
communication while at the same time `keeping an eye on
the structures that are being manipulated in the process.
The proposed grammar activities might be summarized as
follows: