AE Webinar 7.1 - Connecting Reading and Writing in Grammar Teaching: A Functional Approach

This webinar is part of the "American English” webinar series. For more resources to teach and learn English, visit http://americanenglish.state.gov This webinar will explore teaching grammar from a meaning-based perspective. Participants will learn key components of a functional linguistic approach to grammar teaching, analyze how particular words and sentences enact meaning, and consider the benefits of taking a functional approach when teaching English grammar. Participants will have opportunities to apply functional approaches to the classroom through close reading and unpacking language in authentic texts. Multiple classroom applications will be shared.