Mailing list
In collaboration with Bas Aarts, we’ve created an email list for the discussion of grammar-teaching:
teach-grammar@listserv.linguistlist.org.
If you’d like to use it, either for receiving or sending, you have to subscribe first. We welcome subscribers
- from any country
- from any subject (first language, second foreign language, classics, …)
- interested in any language (English, French, ….)
- from any profession (school, university, language school, …).
When you subscribe, your application will be processed by a human. Once you’ve been accepted, please feel free to post to the list.
I am teacher of German in the UK.
I would like to find ways of teaching grammar creatively so that my students will love grammar as much as I do.
Many thanks for adding me to your new grammar mailing list.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs Patricia Cockburn
sharing ideas, looking at what stares you in the face but I cannot put 2 and 2 together.
Thanks for promoting collaboration.
A brilliant idea ! Thanks !
Awesome!
Well done for thinking of this medium, Dick. A splendid move forward.
I teach A level English Language and a level 3 grammar module, based heavily on SFL, at the Open University.
I just wanted to add that I think this is such a good initiative as grammar has sometimes been seen as a ‘dry’ subject, particularly by students. So a shared goal of encouraging and enthusing students in their learning of grammar, is a wonderful idea.
I used to teach French and German in secondary schools in the UK. Grammar teaching has always been a tricky part of the MFL teaching… accepted in some schools, absolutely forbidden in others!
Today, I am a PHD candidate in applied linguistics (didactics) and my research focuses on grammar teaching practices and grammar teachers’ talk in MFL lessons in the UK.
Thanks for opening this email list!
Emilie
I teach English at a ‘widening participation’ Sixth Form College in east London, and would welcome opportunities to be involved any discussion about how we teach/learn grammar. With students coming to us who have no formal experience of grammar through their English and Modern Languages GCSEs, we find that we have to start from scratch, a challenging but rewarding process.
Excellent idea- looking foward to sharing ideas about new ways to make learning grammar fun for students!
Great idea. Thank you.
Brilliant idea!
Good idea! Thanks.
Thanks. That is really a good idea!
I have never stopped teaching grammar, but would love to make it more fun.