The role of grammar instruction in the development of effective writing has long been recognised as a cornerstone of educational practice. Recent pedagogical models emphasise the integration of ...

The Modern Language Journal, Vol. 81, No. 1, Special Issue: How Language Teaching Is Constructed (Spring, 1997), pp. 50-66 (17 pages) This article demonstrates how a constructivist approach to teacher ...

What the teacher needs is a new approach, according to two local educators promoting an alternative way of teaching grammar . “I would say, ‘We’re in school right now. We’re speaking formal English.

Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra I’m going to put it out there - most teachers don’t know enough about how the English language works [aka grammar], and this ...

Raise your hand if you liked sentence diagramming in school. Is your hand raised? If so: Really? Ew. For normal-ish people, diagramming, if not always a fun exercise, is one of many tools to help ...

In May, I asked how teachers can address frequent student grammatical mistakes. The response to that post generated a number of great suggestions. But no response went so far as musician-comedian ...

ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE is not, as the saying goes, the same thing as evidence of absence. But if you continue looking for something intently, and keep failing to find it, you can be forgiven for starting ...

Erica Bexley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The teaching of grammar in primary schools in England (a key feature of England's national curriculum) does not appear to help children's narrative writing, although it may help them generate ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the first half of the twentieth century, English grammar disappeared from the curriculum of most schools in England, but since the 1960s it ...

Living in the age of Twitter is no excuse for bad grammar. So says the "Grammar Goddess," Coon Rapids High School teacher Stephanie Tutt, who believes it's possible to maintain classic standards in an ...