Various Methodologies and Grammar Approaches to Language Teaching

Abstract

Before analyzing the debate on the role of grammar in greater detail, describing the methods that have followed one another during the past decades and the two main underlying tendencies, an explanation of what is generally meant by grammar will follow. The history of grammar analysis goes back to the ancient Greeks, who transformed it from the art of writing and recognizing letters into a science of rules that govern the production of texts. Both the Greeks and Romans, who adopted the Greek analysis for Latin, used grammar to teach people how to use languages, which were then employed in many fields, such as politics, philosophy and religion.

Then, during the Renaissance, the study of Greek and Latin grammars spread thanks to the invention of printing, and many formal studies on language developed.