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Annual Faculty Research Symposium 2023

Bostwick, John, MD, MFA

Keynote Speaker Dr. John Bostwick

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Faculty Research Symposium 2023

Shining a Spotlight on Female African American Composer Evelyn Simpson Curento

Fordjour-Hankins, Iris, DMA

School of Arts and Sciences

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ANNUAL FACULTY RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM HEADSHOTS

Teaching Second Language Grammar with the Bible: A Text-Driven Approac

Lesnov, Roman, PhD

Second language (L2) teachers are on a mission to develop learners’ communicative 
competence in the target language. Teaching L2 grammar is a major component of this mission 
(Canale & Swain, 1980), which highlights the importance of devising an optimal L2 grammar 
teaching approach. Scholars have discussed numerous approaches to teaching L2 grammar, 
ranging from the traditional Presentation-Practice-Production through discovery-based to 
communicatively oriented approaches (see Tomlinson & Masuhara, 2018, pp. 192-201). While 
this wealth of knowledge can assist L2 professionals who work for both secular and faith-based 
schools, Christian teachers may need additional guidance. Many Christian L2 teachers seek to 
incorporate biblical material into their classes to make them more relevant, educational, and/or 
evangelistic, in accordance with the mission of an institution they work at. Therefore, the 
Christian L2 teaching community would benefit from a scholarly discussion as to how L2 
grammar teaching approaches compare in terms of their effectiveness for maximizing the 
learners’ communicative competence and conduciveness to incorporating biblical material. The 
proposed project used these two criteria to analyze the contemporary L2 grammar teaching 
approaches and provide pedagogical recommendations for L2 teachers employed by faith-based 
Christian institutions of higher education. Based on the findings of this exploratory study, L2 
teachers who are Christians may want to consider adopting a text-driven approach to grammar 
instruction in their classes for several reasons. First, it puts a biblical text at the center of the 
lesson and encourages students to engage with it meaningfully without being distracted by the 
technicalities of the language itself. Second, it balances this focus on meaning with focus on 
form as the latter appears in a proper place (i.e., after the initial, holistic experience with the 
text), in a well-executed manner (i.e., it feels like their own discovery), and in an appropriate 
amount accompanied by scaffolding from the teacher. Due to these theory-informed affordances, 
text-driven grammar instruction is recommended as a viable approach to teaching grammar with 
the Bible. 
Keywords: L2, grammar, teaching, Christian, faith-based 
 


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Nwosu, Joshua, Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker Dr. Joshua Nwosu

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Annual Faculty Research Symposium 2023

Keynote Speaker Dr. John Bostwick

Faculty Research Symposium 2023

School of Arts and Sciences

ANNUAL FACULTY RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM HEADSHOTS

School of Arts and Sciences

Annual Faculty Research Symposium Headshots

ANNUAL FACULTY RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM HEADSHOTS

Keynote Speaker Dr. Joshua Nwosu

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