The traditional linear approach to teaching grammar is insufficient for real-life communication where context plays a crucial role. Communicative grammar integrates language structures into the four skills of language, emphasising the importance of context and pragmatic usage. This enables learners to use and understand a structure in various situations spontaneously. The communicative approach to teaching grammar helps students express their ideas beyond just linguistic structures. This paper conducts a comprehensive literature review on the topic of communicative grammar in foreign language acquisition. It analyses different teaching methods and approaches to communicative grammar instruction, including linear and organic models, deductive and inductive approaches. The study also explores the benefits of integrating grammar instruction into all EFL class activities, instead of having a standalone grammar class. Additionally, the role of context and pragmatics in language learning and teaching is investigated. The relationship between form and function, as well as the importance of teaching grammar in context, are also analysed. The paper also examines the disadvantages of the traditional linear model of grammar instruction and the benefits of the communicative approach. It investigates the role of real-life interactions and constant practice in context for assimilating language structures and vocabulary. Finally, the cognitive motivational connection between language construction and meaning in communicative grammar instruction is discussed.
Oksana Kuntso (2024) studied this question.