Formation of Skills Prior to the Acquisition of Basic Grammar Categories

Abstract

Acquisition of grammar is a topic of discussion within educational system. Pupils at school show strong difficulties in independent writing production, which depends, among other things, on general knowledge of basics of grammar. No original strategies or innovation methods are proposed in traditional education. Our study represents an effort to show a new pedagogical approach to teaching initial grammar categories. The aim of the study was to obtain qualitative pedagogical data during the work with basic grammatical categories through prior acquisition of certain skills of orientation and reflective comprehension of differences between essential characteristics of each type of word (basic grammar category). The study was carried out with Mexican regular pupils of second grade of primary school. We discuss effectiveness of positive results, which were obtained by application of new pedagogical experience. Our proposal is based on strategies of guided orientation according to cultural historical psychology and activity theory.