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33 The English Teacher Vol.XXXIV A COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH TO TEACHING GRAMMAR: THEORY AND PRACTICE 1 Siaw-Fong Chung  National Taiwan University ABSTRACT Since the introduction of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), many textbooks have been written to incorporate communicative activities, authentic materials and personalized contexts. However , where the teaching and learning of grammar is concerned, most textbooks do not reflect CLT principles. As demonstrated in this paper, grammar activities in some Malaysian and Taiwanese textbooks retain the structural method of teaching grammar. This paper suggests five methods so that grammar activities can be made more communicative by retaining some practices of the structural syllabus. Introduction Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) materialized in the West in the 1960s and has extended to the Eastern countries over the last 20 years. Since then, CLT principles have formed the foundation of English language syllabi for countries such as Malaysia and T aiwan. In Malaysia, CL T was adopted as early as the 1970s but in Taiwan, the switch from the structural to communi cative approach only started in the 1990s. Before CLT was introduced , the structural sylla bus was the mainstream approach in most Asian settings including Malaysia and Taiwan. Y alden (1987:61) summarized the essence of CLT thus:  It is based on the notion of the learners as communicators, naturally endowed with the ability to learn languages. It seeks to provide learners with the target language system. It is assumed that learners will have to prepare to use the target language (orally and in written form) in many predictable and unpredictable acts of communication which arise both in classroom interaction and in real-world situations, whether concurr ent with language training or subsequent to it. 1 I would like to thank John Kullman of Canterbury Christ Church University College, Canterbury, England, for his comments on the previous version of this paper. My appreciation also goes to Professor Kathleen Ahrens of National Taiwan University and the reviewer(s) of the  English Teacher for reading and commenting on this paper. Any remaining errors are my sole responsibility. The English T eacher Vol. XXXIV, 33-50

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