ENGLISH

STRUCTURE
Prepared by: Ms. Williams
How do we study the structure of
English?
Study the:
-classes of words
-meaning of words (w/ or w/out meaning)
-how words are organised in relation to each
other and in larger constructions
-how words are formed from smaller meaningful
units
How do we study the structure of
English?
Study the:
-the sounds of words
-how they form patterns of knowledge in
the speaker’s mind
-how standardized written forms
represent words
Three-part model of English
Morphology Syntax Discourse
phrases relationship
morphemes between
clauses sentences in
words longer
stretches of
sentences language
Outline structure of English
sentences sentences
-are analysed -are used to build
into clauses clauses
-are analysed -are used to build
into phrases phrases
-are analysed -are used to build
into words words
-are analysed -are used to build
into morphemes morphemes
Your own definition of ENGLISH STRUCTURE
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STRUCTURAL
APPROACH
What is approach?
•An approach is a set of correlative
assumptions dealing with the
nature of language teaching and
learning.

•An approach is axiomatic

Meaning…
•Teaching of English by
helping the students to
learn certain structures of
English as called the
structural approach.
•It is the arrangement
of words in such a
way as to form a
suitable pattern.
•Its main objective is to
increase the students
command over the pattern of
English and enabling them to
use the language more
effectively.
•It also known as ‘aural-oral
approach’ as it stress teaching
language by giving
opportunities to the students
to hear and speak the
language.
Definition
“Structural approach is a
scientific study of the
fundamental structures of
English language, their
analysis and logical
agreement.” -Brewington
Definition
The structural approach is based on
the belief that in the learning of a
foreign language mastery of structures
is more important than the
acquisition of vocabulary.”
–Menon and Patel
What is Structure?
“The Different arrangement or pattern of words
is called structure.”
The language have their own structures. There
are 325 structures and more than 1 million words
in English bulkiest language.
While structural approach expects the students to
learn about 250 basic sentence pattern and 3500
words at the ends of schooling
It has been found that 100 sentences of English
have about 600 structural
•“Structure may be complete
utterances or from part of a large
pattern. Thus structures are tools of a
language and it should not be
confused with sentence is a
grammatical order.”
•Sentence Patterns
•Types of Sentence Structure