Use and imitate mentor texts: Harry Noden, author of Image Grammar: Teaching Grammar as Part of the Writing Process, suggests exposing students to excerpts with
different grammatical structures and moves and then having them imitate the excerpts to deepen their understanding of what the authors are doing.
Not exact matches
For instance, the texts were analyzed with regard to how many
different words are being used, the average number of words per sentence,
grammatical structures, how often the genitive — an indicator for high education in German — is used, or the number of connectors, meaning words that signal semantic relations such as «however» or «instead.»
These alternative expressions, whose
grammatical structure varies, turn out to be used in
different communicative contexts.
Strikingly
different processes seemed to be shaping the lexicon and the grammar — the lexicon changed more when new languages were created, while the
grammatical structures were more affected by contact with other languages.
«The actual word order of ASL is not the same as the
grammatical structure of English, so they're two
different languages.»
The
grammatical structure of Chinese is vastly
different from that of French, yet the developing brain is equally adept at acquiring the underlying
grammatical structure of either language.