Grammar – most learners hate it! Brain friendly grammar distils neuroscience and professional coaching into a simple spoken conversation, harnessing the ideal conditions for absorbing the mechanics of language. In this way, grammar is discussed and explored with the learner in a calm brain friendly conversation. By using the PACT PQC coaching model, language educators will totally transform grammar. This webinar will focus on how to shift grammar conversations by using a coaching model and integrating principles from neuroscience and neuropsychology. The main focus is how to get learners to be curious and to scaffold from previous knowledge as well as bringing then to understand the reasons for grammar and be able to use and apply it instantly. The conversation focuses on constant interaction between coach and coachee and no more long explanations about grammar, but rather getting the coachee to create bigger pictures and then break down and build up the grammar into bite size chunks. We will look at creating a breakdown which can then be used as the “roadmap” through the conversation and then how to deliver this roadmap using the PACT PQC model, which stands for Placement, Assessment, Conversation, Teach, Powerful Questions and Clarification. Each part of the model will be explained and the participants will try out and practise this with an example grammar area.

The model focuses on interaction, enjoyment and non-stressful learning, allowing learners to feel supported, listened to and guided at all times. No two grammar conversations will be the same, as each learner will be different and the coach will always be adapting to the individual or group he/she is working with each time.