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Sohn, Joong-Sun. “Some Suggestions for Restructuring the Elementary English Course book for Grammar Teaching.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 43.1 (2017): 271-292. The purpose of this paper is to make some suggestions for teachers who want to restructure their elementary English course book in order to improve the effect of teaching grammar. For effective grammar teaching to young learners, we need to take 'grammar teaching' as 'developing learners' grammar sense' for communicative production rather than 'teaching grammar rules' for accuracy. Some ideas are offered as a way to develop grammar sense in learners. First, teachers need to properly understand the relationship between communicative function and language form before they restructure their course book. Second, sentences with an action verb, not be-verb, should be placed at the front of the language course because action ve rbs, especially transitive verbs, have a distinctive meaning and help learners build the sense of word order more easily than be-verbs. Third, four basic sentence structures—WH-question, Yes-No question, Affirmative, and Negative—should be given at once for learners to be able to see the patterns of the structures. Fourth, learners attention must be drawn to the form corresponding to the communicative function, not to the object or complementary words in order not to result in vocabulary learning. Finally, to help learners grasp grammatical concepts, they need to be given opportunities to compare two contrastive forms. (Daegu National University of Education)