Advocates insist that students acquire language naturally if they can get enough comprehensible input from the teacher. Reformulating Grammatical Instruction neither approach acknowledges the critical role of the teacher in negotiating classroom explanations. Neither approach acknowledges the contributions and the background of the learners. Teachers and learners collaborate on and co-construct the grammar explanation. Teacher provides grammar explanation for the learners.
Language is language only when it is whole.
The whole is always viewed as being greater than the sum of its parts. Once students experience the whole they are better able to deal with its parts. A whole language approach stresses natural discourse and encourages students to comprehend meaningful and longer samples of discourse from the very beginning of the lesson. Teaching Introduce the lesson with a whole text. This foreshadowing of the new language elements through integrated discourse and highlights the critical grammar structures to be taught.