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Word Grammar developed by Richard Hudson is a branch of cognitive linguistics. Word Grammar shows grammatical relations or functions by explicit labels, e.g.: subject, object, indirect object and adjunct, etc. It considers a language as a network of knowledge, linking concepts about words, their meanings, etc. On the other hand, words are the nodes that hold the ‘language” part of the human network together. Labeled networks are controversial even within linguistics because the labels themselves need an explanation or analysis. The paper refered to applying this theory on syntax lessons for major English students at University of Foreign Language Studies - The University of Da Nang, Viet Nam. We conducted the study with two first – year students groups studying general English skills. To clarify this study, the data from these two classes were collected for analyzing linguistic perspectives in the view of Word Grammar. The paper used descriptive, analytic, synthetic, comparative and contrastive methods with 50 students to find out the findings of advantages and difficulties when this view was used to teach syntax lessons in English, and especialy in English – Vietnamese translating and interpreting.
