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Learning a new language is exciting process and has a lot of benefits for people of all ages. Studying new languages which are widely spoken around the wold such as English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic develop the student’s knowledge about people, culture, economy, science and much more... During the learning stage, students supposed to be exposed to talking, listening, writing, reading and learning the grammar. Grammar helps us understand what makes sentences and paragraphs and make us clear and precise. Students should be exposed to increasingly difficult inputs, from simple, compound, complex, to compound-complex sentences and then try to imitate those. Students should try to memorize the most useful grammar structures and develop daily practical vocabulary and create their personal dictionary. When we talk or write, making grammatical mistakes are natural and it is part of learning. This is acceptable but to improve our production skills (writing and speaking), learning grammar is important. Words are the building blocks of any language and grammar is the cement that is necessary for us to enhance accuracy and convey what we want to say properly. It is the structure that conveys precise meaning from the speaker to the audience. Grammar is important because it provides information that helps the student's comprehension. Students should associate grammar with errors and correctness. On the other hand, in our daily conversations we are actually flying back and forth between grammatical structures and tenses. For example, “I went to school yesterday to speak with my teacher; and we decided to meet today. Now, we are studying English. I am going to meet you tomorrow at the same time. Sorry for today”. As we have seen in the previous example, there are past, present, and future tense. When an ordinary person speaks fluently, he/she uses lots of grammar without realizing and even does not know anything about grammar, structure, tenses. When we start to speak, do we stop and structure the sentences? NO, WE DO NOT STRUCTURE THE SENTENCES. In normal speed of speech, we say two to three words per second. Do we know which word will be coming up next? No, we do not know. We do not structure sentences and we do not know which word is coming out of our mouth next. Actually, we do not have time to stop and think about all those grammatical structures and corrections in our everyday talk. What students really need is for the teacher to take a relatively flexible approach to how to teach and conduct teaching methods and my explanations here are primarily for speaking skills. There are methods which can be adapted to teaching reading, writing and listening skills as well. Different and new approaches to language education give teachers and students new ways to teach and study of the natural complexity learning, pronunciation, and fluency. Of course students who have chance to live and practice English spoken countries have big advantages over the other students who do not have the same opportunity. In order to communicate effectively, students should study not only grammar, additionally whatever they have learned should be brought to life by practicing. Learning should be fun, and interesting for students by engaging them effectively, with tailor made studying method, and activating what they have been thought.
