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Chapter One Introduction 

This chapter mainly introduces three parts about the thesis. The research background is presented at first, which includes the status quo of grammar teaching and the possibility of  application  of  research-based  learning  to  grammar  teaching.  The  second  part  describes the research purpose and its significance. The last part is an overall framework of the study. 

1.1 Background of the study 
Cheng  (2013)  states  briefly  that  the  purpose  of  grammar  learning  lies  not  only  in guaranteeing  the  correctness  of  language  use,  but  also  conveying  opinions  and  thoughts. However,  in  actual  grammar  teaching,  correctness  and  expression  of  meaning  are  not attached  equal  importance.  Under  the  pressure  of  exam-oriented  education,  many  English teachers  directly  present  grammatical  knowledge  to  students  on  blackboard  or  PPT  and explain  the  syntax  rules  completely  by  themselves  in  class  for  the  sake  of  saving  time instead of working out problems with students together. What students need to do is to take notes,  memorize  rules  by  heart  and  do  a  large  amount  of  exercises  afterwards  to consolidate  the  grammatical  points.  Such  monotonous  grammar  teaching  pattern  provides few opportunities for students to think and express themselves independently, resulting in the poor expression ability in English and the detriment to students’ learning interest in the long run after spending much time memorizing rules mechanically.      However, according to the new criteria of grammar teaching proposed by the National Curriculum Standards for Senior High School English, teachers should start teaching from perspective  of  language  performance  and  try  their  best  to  design  teaching  activities  to combine language form, meaning and usage, which is of great benefit for students to grasp ideographic  function  of  grammar  in  context.  Based  on  above  statements  on  grammar teaching,  it  is  easy  to  find  that  there  is  a  large  gap  between  curriculum  standards  and current  grammar  teaching  situation.  How  to  teach  grammar  effectively  is  a  tough  nut  to crack for English educators. 
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1.2 Purpose and significance of the study 
Grammar has a great effect on reading and speaking. Grammar is a system of rule that consists of elements of language. Once learners have no ability to understand rule system, they cannot comprehend and analyze sentence constituents correctly, which in the long run will hinder their reading comprehension. Wu (1997) states that if lea本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。