{"id":15050,"date":"2020-05-08T12:17:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T16:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=15050"},"modified":"2024-10-26T17:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T21:14:39","slug":"dont-kill-the-giraffe-if-when-and-how-to-teach-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/dont-kill-the-giraffe-if-when-and-how-to-teach-grammar\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t kill the giraffe! If, when and how to teach grammar."},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. -->\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UHzjlrtUKd8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"> Ask the Experts <p>Have you ever wondered why some people can just learn a language without learning grammar?<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U_iFF3Hi2hY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>Do you worry about how to present grammar in your classroom?\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s \u201cgiraffe killing\u201d and how does it apply to teaching grammar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/live-may-15-the-clock-of-english-grammar-how-when-and-if-we-should-teach-it\/\">TESOL webinar<\/a> we\u2019re going to dive into these ideas.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once we emerge from the other side a better, and more informed idea about if, when, and how to teach (and not to teach) grammar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Looking forward to seeing you there!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabriel EA Clark is an English teacher with 16 years\u2019 experience and an MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics from Portsmouth University. He\u2019s the \u201cClark\u201d in Clark and Miller (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarkandmiller.com\/\">www.clarkandmiller.com<\/a>), a website that focuses on giving learners a deeper understanding of how English works through online courses, books, a podcast and a blog that often features giraffes. He can be found giving talks at conferences, cycling around post-Soviet neighborhoods or performing music in empty bars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask the Experts Have you ever wondered why some people can just learn a language without learning grammar? Do you worry about how to present grammar in your classroom? What\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2413,46,15],"class_list":["post-15050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americantesol","tag-clark-and-miller","tag-tesol","tag-webinar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15050"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19233,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions\/19233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}