Summary
Highlights
When planning grammar practice, teachers should focus on activities that are meaningful, engaging, and specifically targeted at the learning challenge. These activities should ensure the learning challenge is in focus.
The type of activity should align with the learning challenge. For form-focused challenges, meaningful repetition like chants or games are useful. For meaning challenges, activities linking form and meaning are needed. For use challenges, students need to make choices, such as in role-playing a job interview requiring specific tenses.
Meaningful activities require students to use grammar for a purpose, like giving directions, rather than just listing decontextualized sentences. Engaging activities are crucial as grammar can be unpopular. Teachers should personalize activities, individulize learning, and include creative elements like games, skits, and songs to foster motivation and creativity.