Prescriptive Grammar in Teaching English in Indonesian Schools

This article is written in an attempt to argue that there is a need of uniformity in terms of grammar when English is taught as a foreign language. Thus, the idea that prescriptivism is "out of date" as well as "not permissive to language change" is corrected by presenting some a...

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Main Author: Luh Putu Artini
Format: Article
Language:Indonesian
Published: Universitas Negeri Malang 2016-02-01
Series:Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan
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Online Access:http://journal.um.ac.id/index.php/jip/article/view/564
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Summary:This article is written in an attempt to argue that there is a need of uniformity in terms of grammar when English is taught as a foreign language. Thus, the idea that prescriptivism is "out of date" as well as "not permissive to language change" is corrected by presenting some arguments of the need to maintain its application. Some of those are related to language testing, language environment, size of foreign language classess and text books
ISSN:0215-9643
2442-8655