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Grammar in Teaching Albanianas a Foreign LanguageConcepts, Presentations, AnalysisEmine SADIKU-TEICHMANNBundessprachenamt, Selten gelehrte Sprachen (Albanisch), Hürth, Germany & visitingfellow at University of ElbasanGladiola POPAUniversity of ElbasanABSTRACTThis paper dwells on one of the central issues of research studies in the field of foreignlanguage teaching. Currently, this discipline has carved out its own boundaries and a clearobject for itself to research and study. However, the role and place of grammar in foreignlanguage teaching and learning still remains one of the controversial topics under itspurview, both at a national and international level. Since the triumphant march ofpragmatics into linguistics, a kind of disregard or belittlement of grammar’s importance inliterary creations or foreign language learning has been noted. Grammar, in the sense of thesystem of morphological and syntactic rules, is counterbalanced by the theory of languageusage, the formation of learners’ skills to speak in different styles. These theories havepushed grammar to the margins of language learning. The clash between these two frontslasted for decades. Today, a balance seems to have been achieved: Grammar in foreignlanguage learning is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the end. Our paper isconcerned with the concept and role of grammar as an irreplaceable component in foreignlanguage learning. Ten years after the death of one of the most successful authors in thefield of foreign language grammar, H. Kleineidam, his colleagues held a commemorativeconference. The papers and contributions to this conference were put together to form avery interesting publication with the self-explanatory title (which might as well have beenthe title of our paper): Grammatica vivat! (Long live grammar!) (Barrera-Vidal, A. /Raupach, M. / Zögfen, E. (Hrsg): Grammatica vivat, Gunter Narre Verlag Tübingen,1992).Keywords: grammar; linguistics; didactics; foreign language grammar; pragmatics;grammar of the parts of speech and sentence grammar; communicative grammar; textgrammar, etc.Albanian Journal of Educational Studies 6