TG theory is a brand-new theory founded by Noam Chomsky
a very famous Americanlinguist
in 1950s. It is one of the two most influential linguistic schools in the present world.Based upon rationalism
TG theory advocates inference and reasoning
thus opposing the rigidimitation and the mechanical memorizing of the grammatical rules of the target language
which were initiated by the traditional methodology of behaviorist structuralism. After a brief review of TG’s developing history and its theoretical and philosophical foundations
this article
from different angles
has illustrated the advantages of TG theory used in English teaching through concrete examples.