A Review on Grammar Teaching of English Textbook Entitled “Skillful: Listening and Speaking, Student’s Book Pack 2” by David Bohlke and Robyn Lockwood
Abstract
Grammar, one of the language elements appearing in many student course books targets learners at specific proficiency levels. Since the textbook entitled Skillful: Listening & Speaking, Student’s Book Pack 2 written by David Bohlke and Robyn Lockwood, published by Macmillan in 2013 has just been adopted to freshmen aging from 18 to 19, at pre-intermediate level of the academic year of 2017 – 2018 at Department of English, University of Foreign Language Studies – The University of Danang, the issue of how the book is organized in terms of grammar, how the grammar patterns are presented, and what students’ attitudes are towards the use of grammar is the matter of our concern. The descriptive, quantitative and qualitative methods were taken advantage of to discover the organization and presentation of grammatical points in this course book for students by reviewing one particular grammar activity.
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