Grammar Exercises are intended for minority pupils who attend regular secondary schools. They are especially suitable for classes conducted in the after-hours program. The material includes structural and communicative exercises and activities, whose goal is to facilitate the comprehension and production of both spoken and written texts. They are text-centered and structured around particular grammatical phenomena. The exercises are divided into two levels:
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Semi-Beginner’s level, and
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Intermediate level.
The Grammar Exercises were developed through specially designed “diagnostic exercises” which tested particular research hypotheses on the language problems Minority pupils face in secondary education. These diagnostic exercises were administered to the Minority pupils who attended the after-hours classes during the school year 2002-2003, under the supervision of their teachers. For the overwhelming majority of these pupils the success rate in the exercises was found to be below 50%. It is precisely the level of these pupils that was
later named “semi-beginner’s”. In addition, the analysis of the results showed a hierarchy of grammatical phenomena which mirrors their degree of difficulty and their sequential order in the students’ ‘interlanguage’. The development of Grammar Exercises was also facilitated by a comparative evaluation of available textbooks for teaching Greek to foreigners.
Grammar Exercises have been in use since the school year 2002-2003. Teachers have received about 716 of such exercises, covering all the basic grammatical phenomena of the Modern Greek language through the Intermediate Level.
Grammar Exercises were submitted for approval to the Pedagogical Institute in June 2006, via the Ministry’s Special Secretariat for The Education of Greeks Abroad and Intercultural Education, so that they can be published as official school materials by OEDB.
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