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Teaching Grammars

Teaching grammars are those grammars used by non-users of a language to associate a new language with their native language. Teaching grammars generally use descriptive grammars to describe the new language s rules for the learner, and assist the learner with the lexicon of the new language by providing glosses, which are parallel words in both the new and the old languages (such as the French word maison, which corresponds to English house). Linguistic rules are generally provided in reference to the user's knowledge of their native language. Teaching grammars do, strictly speaking, prescribe how a new language should be spoken, but they do so for a non-native speaker, not for one who already knows the language. Once the language is learned, the teaching grammar can be abandoned for one's internal knowledge of language structure [Fromkin and Rodman, 16].

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