Welcome

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Welcome to Teaching Grammar, maintained by Geoff Dean and Dick Hudson. We hope to fill it up with good stuff about:

• why grammar is worth teaching in UK schools, both in English lessons and in foreign-language lessons.
• what grammar can and should be taught.
• how it can be taught successfully.
• how and why it is taught in other countries and at other times in this country.
• how to boost your own knowledge of grammatical ideas and terminology.

The material is divided into tabs as follows:

• About: this page
  • Who? – a list of all the authors who are listed in the other pages
• Context: the historical, geographical and governmental context of grammar teaching
• Why? – why teach grammar?
• How? – what are the best ways to teach it effectively?
• What? – what grammar to teach?
• Self-help – how to improve your own grammatical knowledge
• Events – conferences or lectures about grammar teaching
• Email list about teaching grammar

 

We’d also like to advertise the LAGB grammar glossary for schools