A Good Grammar Facilitates a Good Speaking Skill

It has been a headline, a hot topic, and an important issue in many books, seminars, talk shows, and others. Grammar can be a delicate issue deciding it is really important or not to have a good knowledge of grammar in order to speak English well. Some experts say that fluency is the most important English skill. Fluency is the ability to speak (and understand) English quickly and easily... WITHOUT translation. Fluency means you can talk easily with native speakers-- they easily understand you, and you easily understand them. Furthermore, we do not get fluency by studying grammar rules. In short, have a good knowledge of grammar isn’t absolutely essential to make us speaking English well.  Other professionals have different opinion. Grammar is really a matter. See and hear grammar errors can feel pretty darned depressing to those of us who care about language, who love it, and who try to use it as well as we can. Both of these specialists have their arguments why grammar isn’t absolutely essential and why grammar is the basic of speaking English well.

People who agree that grammar isn’t really crucial have strong reason. We have been studying English for years but still do not feel good about our speaking skill. How can it happen? Perhaps we focus more on grammar. A lot of research results show when we actually study grammar rules it impairs our ability to speak. We can’t speak quickly, easily, and automatically if we always think of the grammar rules. Once more, native speakers do not study grammar rules when they learn to speak English. The only time they start studying about it is when they enter senior high school as a means of helping to better their writing skills. So, a good knowledge of grammar will not guarantee us to speak English well.

The groups who agree that grammar is really vital have solid line of reasoning too. It matters a lot, for example, when we are applying a job.  In one survey of hiring managers, 75 percent said it was worse for an applicant to have a pronunciation or grammar error on his interview than for him to show up late. It continues to matter when we've landed that job. Good grammar skill will help us to keep the job. It also makes a person seem more intelligent. Employers do not want people who sound stupid. Yet again, to speak English well, it means to communicate well we have to pay attention to context, and yes good knowledge of grammar badly need in here. Language is used to send messages and get responses. How come the receivers understand what we mean if we speak ungrammatically. The way we speak will show who we really are, an educated person or a person who has never been to school.

Even though these two sides have strong reasons, it is more wisely for us to obey the rules, have a good knowledge of grammar. We are educated people who respect the law of a language. Following and applying grammar rules will produce the most felicitous speaking skill.