Teaching techniques for supporting grammar learning

1. Talking with children

2. Language practice activities that offer structing opportunities

2.1. Questionnaires, surveys and quizzes

2.2. Information gap activities

2.3. Helping hands

2.4. Drills and chants

3. Introducing metalanguage

3.1. Explicit teacher talk

3.2. Cloze activities for word class

4. Guided noticing activities

4.1. Listen and notice

4.2. Presentation of new language with puppets

5. The language of classroom management

6. Proceduralising activities

6.1. Polar animal description re-visited

6.2. Dictogloss