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ELT Journal 2006 60(1):23-33; doi:10.1093/elt/cci078
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved.

Maths in the grammar classroom

Howard Williams

Howard Williams is a Lecturer in the TESOL and Applied Linguistics Programs at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York

Email: Howwil{at}aol.com

This article reports work to assist learners in acquiring insights into certain grammatical and lexical areas of English by drawing on their awareness of fairly elementary mathematical concepts—and shows how often English structures can behave in ways parallel to numbers. For learners with an appropriate background and learning style, it is suggested that this approach can be a powerful way of supporting their language learning by making connections to concepts with which they are already familiar.


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