The Noun - General Considerations

Chapter I  The Noun  General Considerations ………………………… 5
I.1. General principles of teaching grammar …………………………………. 5
I.2. Principles of Communicative Language Teaching ………………............. 7
I.3. Grammar and Communicative Language Teaching …………………….. 8
I.4. Definition of nouns. Classifications ……………………………………… 11

Chapter II- Countable Nouns ………………………………………………. 17
II.1. Features of countable nouns ……………………………………………. 17
II.2.Regular plurals …………………………………………………………… 17
II.3. Irregular plurals …………………………………………………............. 19
II. 4. The plural of compound nouns …………………………………………. 20
II.5. Nouns with two plural forms ……………………………………............ 21
II.6. Collective nouns ……………………………………………………….. 22
II. 7. Modalities of teaching countable nouns ………………………………... 23
II. 7.1.Teaching countable nouns deductively ……………………………….. 24
II. 7. 2. Teaching grammar inductively ………………………………............ 30
II.8. The role of practice and classroom activities with countable nouns ……. 36

Chapter III  Uncountable Nouns …………………………………............. 42
III.1. Features of uncountable nouns ………………………………………... 42
III.2. Classification of uncountable nouns …………….. ……………. ……. 43
III.3. The use of partitives with uncountable nouns ………………………... 48
III.4. Classroom activities to teach uncountable nouns ………………. …….. 49

Chapter IV  Countable and Uncountable Nouns  a comparative view .. 65
IV.1.Features of countable and uncountable nouns  comparison ………….. 65
IV.2. Use of determiners ……………………………………………………... 65
IV.3. Concord with the predicate …………………………………………….. 69
IV.4. Boundaries and non-boundaries between countable and uncountable nouns ……………………………. …………………………………………... 71
IV.4.1.Uncountable nouns used as countable nouns …………………………. 71
IV.4.2.Usage of different words to render differences in meaning ………….. 74
IV.4.3.Countable nouns versus Pluralia Tantum Nouns ……………………... 74
IV. 5. Contrastive analysis 77
IV.6. Lesson plan 80
IV.7. Error analysis and error correction. Testing grammar …………............. 83
IV.8. Consolidation activities ………………………………………………… 85
Conclusions ………………………………………………………….............. 87
Bibliography ………………………………………………………………… 88