On the Acquisition of English Grammar and the Cultivation of Communication Competence

Grammar teaching has experienced a resurrection with the development of public English course for college students in recent years.Along with the development of linguistic theories,people are having a better understanding of the nature of language, which in turn sheds light on English teaching methods: How can we unite the cultivation of communication competence and grammar competence?How can we define the grammmar for teaching? What's the relationship between the grammar learning and acquisition?Moreover,the article intends to deal with problems existing in college English grammar teaching, such as linear model of grammar items and the need for grammar-Input contextualizaion and in particular,to suggest a number of approaches to the teaching of grammar in language classrooms.