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Grammar in Teaching Albanian as a Foreign Languageresult, the discipline behind their teaching and learning has seen a long, intense andgrowing development, thus, currently displaying unprecedented levels of consolidation.Research, reviews, experiences and generalizations flow from various directions,building on the wealth of the scientific didactic opinion that illuminates the teachingand learning of one of these foreign languages. In this brief overview, the focus is placedonly on a fraction of thinking underpinning the discipline in question.As shown by the recent editions of foreign-language-grammars in English andFrench, it can be affirmed that the dominant type is the sentence and parts of speechgrammar, otherwise known as the traditional grammar. The over-two-thousandyeartradition of dividing words in sentence parts founded by Dionysios Thrax (1 stcentury BC) is at the heart of the linguistic description employed by this type ofgrammar works. Of course, it is not a faithful representation of parts of speech asgiven in the Greek grammar and the subsequent Roman grammar. It is rather anintroduction to the language through parts of speech arranged in different orders.To illustrate this point, focus will be placed on some grammar texts lately usedby the authors of this paper. These grammar books were published after the year2000. The highly successful book by Dreyer/Schmitt “Lehr-und Übungsbuch derdeutschen Grammatik” starts with a chapter on the noun as a part of speech anddeals at length with its grammatical features; it continues further with the article, thepersonal pronoun, the possessive pronoun, etc, until all parts of speech are covered.The authors address the various morphological and syntactical problems. Theorder and volume of coverage depends on their weight in the language. Alongsidemorphological and syntactical information on the sentence and parts of speech, thebook provides semantic and pragmatic information, too. The authors themselvesaffirm: “Grammatical rules only help to understand the phenomena; usage is moreimportant. This is attained through the abundant exercises illustrating theoreticaldescriptions.” (Dreyer/Schmitt, 2001, p. 3).Morphology is a dominant component in Parts of Speech Grammar. Sentencebuilding information is negligible by comparison with morphological information.For example, in the case of the Grammar of the French Language “FranzösischeGrammatik” out of the total 260 pages, 205 deal with morphological phenomena(Lubka, R., 2005). Likewise, in the “Italienisch Grammatik” of the total 440 pages,only 50 deal with syntax and sentence building.The traditional type is nowadaysthe most preferred type of foreign language grammar. Sentence and Parts of SpeechGrammars both refer to the language system. Communicative grammar cameinto existence as the opposite of traditional grammar. This type of grammar is notconcerned with the system; it proclaims final departure from traditional grammar,tantamount to downright divorce. However, the divorce is only proclaimed since13Volume 1 - Number 1 - 2013