Pedagogical grammar occupies a middle ground between the areas of prescriptive and descriptive grammar. Simply put, prescriptive grammar sets forth rules about how language should be used correctly. It prescribes language the way a doctor prescribes medicine by saying what ought to be done. Descriptive grammar, on the other hand, describes how speakers actually use language without consideration for whether it conforms to "proper" rules. Since the goal of pedagogical grammar is to help non-native speakers achieve fluency, some of both approaches is necessary. In order for a language learner to speak well, most of his or her utterances will need to conform to the grammatical rules set forth in prescriptive grammar. On the other hand, it helps to understand the way native speakers actually use language; through descriptive grammar. This is necessary for the learner to make sense of slang or other non-standard ways of speaking, such as ending sentences with prepositions.

1. Carlos L. Yanes

2. Pedagogical (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
relating to, or befitting a teacher or education
Pedagogical / Pedagogy (macmillandictionary.com)
relating to educational methods and principles
Pedagogue (www.etymonline.com)
late 14c., "schoolmaster, teacher,"
from Old French pedagoge "teacher of children"
(14c.), from Latin paedagogus, from
Greek paidagogos
"slave who escorts boys to school and
generally
supervises them," later "a teacher,"
from pais (genitive paidos) "child"
from agein "to lead"

3. GRAMMAR (macmillandictionary.com)
The set of rules that describe the
structure of a language and control the
way that sentence are formed

4. Odlin, T., (ed.) Perspectives on
Pedagogical Grammar, (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1994)
A pedagogical grammar is a modern
approach in linguistics intended to aid in
teaching an additional language.

5. 

This method of teaching is divided into the
descriptive: grammatical analysis, and
the
prescriptive: the articulation of a set
of rules. Following an analysis of the context
in which it is to be used, one grammatical
form or arrangement of words will be
determined to be the most appropriate.
Pedagogical grammars typically require
rules that are definite, coherent, nontechnical, cumulative and heuristic. As the
rules themselves accumulate, an axiomatic
system is formed between the two
languages that should then enable a native
speaker of the first to learn the second.

6. 
A pedagogic grammar is a description of how to use the
grammar of a language to communicate, for people wanting to
learn the target language. It can be compared with a reference
grammar, which just describes the grammar of the language.
Pedagogic grammars contain assumptions about how learners
learn, follow certain linguistic theories in their descriptions, and
are written for a specific target audience.

Example
How English Works and Grammar in Use are pedagogic grammar
books, as they help learners use the grammar of English for
communication.

In the classroom
Learners can be asked to compare different explanations of a
language point from different grammars. This allows learners to
think about grammar and its role in communication.

7. 
The concept of pedagogic grammar
(PG) has been discussed for over thirty
years, and there have been several
attempts to summarize the data in the
field and to outline the perspectives.

8. 
The theory of PG may include the
following components:
1) pedagogic grammar itself;
2) the psychological grammar – pedagogic
grammar relationship;
3) the linguistic grammar – pedagogic
grammar relationship;
4) the teaching material – pedagogic
grammar relationship;
5) the implementation of pedagogic
grammar in actual teaching

9. PSYCHOLOGICAL
GRAMMAR
PEDAGOGIC
GRAMMAR
TEACHING
PROGRESS
LINGUISTIC
GRAMMAR
TEACHING
MATERIAL
As it follows from Fig. 1, pedagogic
grammar plays the role of filter between
psychological grammar and linguistic
grammar, on the one hand, and the
Teaching progress, on the other.

10. PSYCHOLOGICAL
GRAMMAR
PEDAGOGIC
GRAMMAR
TEACHING
MATERIAL
TEACHING
PROGRESS
LINGUISTIC
GRAMMAR

11. 
PG is a pedagogic description of a
language aimed to improve the
control of the acquisition/process. PG
incorporates all grammar actions to be
acquired (with the description of
constituent operations) as well as the
pedagogic information concerning
these actions.

12. The Implementation of Pedagogic Grammar in the
Teaching Process. The best results are achieved on
the basis of a maximum parallel use of both
“acquisition” and “learning”. The efficiency of
“acquisition” depends on:
1) the amount of input;
2) affective characteristics in the classroom;
3) the amount of intake;
4) students’ motivation, initiative and intensity of
training in real-life situations;
5) speech patterns as the only type of pedagogic
information should meet the following requirements:

13. a) provide orientation about the topic of
communication;
b) provide for the visual perception of
the object of communication;
c) model the corresponding speech
acts;
d) control the environment at the L+1
level (where L is the actual level of the
students).

14. The efficiency of “learning” is highest when:
a) grammar sub skills are developed along
the materialized-to-mental-forms
guidelines;
b) the students’ complete orientation has
been provided for;
c) the students use the materialized type of
pedagogic information;
d) exercises start immediately after the
orientation;
e) involuntary memorization.

17. What is Pedagogical
Grammar?
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18.  Rene
Driven
 refers to pedagogical grammar as
a cover form for any learner or teacheroriented description or presentation of
foreign language rule complexes with the
aim of promoting and guiding learning in
the acquisition of that language.

19.  Corder
 refers to replace the term
pedagogical grammar with the pedagogy
of grammar, points out that the term does
not just imply to the implicit treatment of
grammar.
 Bausch
 pedagogical grammar results
from the consolidation and integration of
the findings and insights of these areas:
LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY and
the FIELD OF APPLICATION (foreign
language teaching)

20. Grammar
Pedagogical Grammar
Learning
Grammar
Descriptive Grammar
Teaching Reference
Grammar Grammar
Integrated in
textbooks
School
grammar
independent
University
grammar
User’s
grammar
Fig.1 Types of Grammar
Linguistic
Grammar
Immediate
constituent
Transformational
generative
Case grammar
Communicative
grammar

21. On Descriptive Grammar
 the focus is on the code, linguistic
data is described to reveal patterns of
arrangement of the different grammatical
categories
On Pedagogical Grammar
 the focus is on how grammatical
items may be made more learnable or
teachable

22.  Pedagogical Grammar is considered
a hybrid grammar because it draws
from and synthesizes the other
conceptions of grammar choosing that
which would best suit the grammatical
item being taught.
Fig. 2 shows the four conception of Grammar which
pedagogical grammar draws from

23. 1. Grammar as prescription
-> focuses on rules, that is, the do’s and
don’t of grammatical construction
Ex.

24. Grammar
as
prescription
Grammar
as
description
Pedagogical
grammar
Grammar
as an
internalized
system
Grammar
as a set of
axioms
Fig. 2 Pedagogical Grammar: A hybrid grammar

25. 2. Grammar as description
-> focuses on the sequence or word
order to become clearer
Ex. teaching of structure of modification
A. Adverbs of place, manner and time
[Adverb of time + sentence + adverb of place, manner]
Or
[Sentence + adverb of manner, place, time]

26. B. Mid-position or frequency adverbs
1. Subject } + verb to be} + mid-position adverb}
+ rest of the sentence
Ex. He is often late.
2. Subject} + mid-position adverb} + action verb}
+ rest of the sentence.
Ex. He often comes late.
3. Subject} + helping verb} + mid-position
adverb} + main verb} + rest of the sentence
Ex. He has often arrived late.

27. 3. Grammar as an internalized system
-> The innate mental structures which a
native speaker has of his language which
guides his actual use of the language and
enables him to sense “what sounds correct” and
“what seems wrong” even if he cannot explain
why.
Examples: “if-real” conditional clause

28. Native speaker: If he comes early, we will join
you.
Filipino learner: If he will come early, we will join
you.
The approach used is consciousness raising to make the
second language learner realize what the native
speaker knows instinctively.

29. 4. Grammar as a set of axioms.
-> One such rule is that which pertains to
the prepositional phrase.
[PP-> P NP (PP)
-> The rule stipulates that “a prepositional
phrase may be re-written as a preposition
followed by a noun phrase which may in turn be
followed by any number of other prepositional
phrases.

30. EXPANSIONS
PP-> P NP (PP)
1.
P
NP
P
NP
There’s a tree in my garden.
P
NP
2.
There’s a nest in a tree in my garden.
3.
P NP P NP P NP
There’s an egg in a nest in a tree in my garden.
4.
P
NP
P
NP
P
There’s an embryo in an egg in a nest in
NP
P
NP
a tree in my garden

31. Given these grammatical items, which approach to
grammar (prescription, description, innate system or
axiomatic system), would each item land itself to
render it more learnable and teachable?
1. Structure of Complementation
[S- TV- DO] I called my friend.
[S- TV- DO- OC] I called my friend a real gem.
2. Structure of Modification (placement of singleword adjectival modifier)
I bought three round brown leather keychains.

32. 3. Parallel constructions
Every living creature: the birds of the air, the
animals on the land and the fish in the deep, deserves
its place in the sun.
4. Agreement in number
Neither the teacher nor the students were hurt.
Neither the students nor the teacher was hurt.
Rice and fish is all I had for lunch.
Rice and fish are expensive.
5. Response to negative question
Q: You’re not coming around tomorrow, are you?
A: No, I’m not. (Some Filipino learners would say
“Yes, I’m not coming.)

33. 6. Response to the question, “Do you mind…?”
Some Filipino learners say “Sure, go ahead,” even
when they mean “Of course not. Go right ahead.”
7. Definition
a. Full form
[Term to be defined + verb to be + General Class +
relative pronoun + specific characteristics]
Ex. Zoology is the study which is concerned with animal
life.
b. Reduced form
[Term to be defined + verb to be + Gen. Class +
specific characteristic]
Ex. Zoology is the study concerned with animal life.

34. 8.
* Shall we go to the living room? (to signal an
invitation)
* Shall I go to the living room? (To ask
information as to what one is to do)