The history of grammar teaching

• Lily’s Grammar of Latin in English (1540 ff)
  • Taught children to analyse the English sentence before translating it into Latin, and applied as much to English as to Latin.
  • Commissioned by Henry VIII and authorized as the only grammar to be used in English schools for over 300 years, till replaced in the late 19th century by Kennedy’s Latin Grammar. This is the grammar that taught grammatical analysis to Shakespeare and many others.
  • Available in a facsimile of a 1709 reprint.
• Laurence Walker. 2011. “200 Years of Grammar. A history of grammar teaching in Canada, New Zealand and Australia, 1800-2000” (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse).
• The nineteenth century
• Dick Hudson: History of grammar teaching in England.
• Geoff Dean: The Grammar Wars
• David Crystal: English grammar in the UK: a political history
• A survey of UK school-leavers’ knowledge of grammatical terminology, 1986 vs 2009