ACADEMIC WRITING – THE TEXTBOOK GENRE. THE CASE OF ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN GRAMMAR BOOKS
ACADEMIC WRITING – THE TEXTBOOK GENRE. THE CASE OF ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN GRAMMAR BOOKS

Author(s): Olivia Rusu, Silviu Mihăilă
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition, Comparative Linguistics, Pedagogy
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: academic writing; textbook genre; contrastive grammar; methodological approaches; linguistic competence; linguistic performance;
Summary/Abstract: This research focuses on a contrastive critical and methodological approach applied to six well-known English and Romanian grammar books. The authors are interested to observe and interpret the strengths and limitations of the selected grammar books in order to identify educational strategies and stages to be taken when teaching grammar. A major attention was paid to the didactic contrastive scenario of teaching grammar. English grammars are descriptive, whereas Romanian grammars are rather prescriptive. Thus, this enquiry is an attempt to find a generalised and practical layout in the study of two different idiomatic approaches, with a focus on similarities and an aim on divergences. Methodologically speaking, this research targets to further developed and improve educational practices for teaching and learning English language rules and Romanian grammar. Given examples include an overview of verbal tenses and of general vocabulary, for A1-B1 CERCL levels, in both languages.

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