An Attempt to Employ Diagrammatic Illustrations in Teaching English Grammar: Pictorial English Grammar

• Main Author: Kaoru Takahashi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2013-08-01
• Series: Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
• Subjects: English grammar; Gerund; Basic sentence pattern; Passive voice; Relative pronoun; Nexus; Parts of speech
• Online Access: http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/iEA875ZU.pdf

In order for intermediate students poor at English grammar to enjoy learning it, a unique methodology has been improved in the classroom. In this article illustrated vehicles relevant to the five basic sentence patterns are presented in order to show how helpful this method is to understand English grammar. Also, more enhanced areas of this theory are discussed, which clarifies the feasibility of this methodology. The items to be introduced in my method are gerund, the passive voice, the relative pronoun and so on.