Material for grammar-teaching
This is a collection of broadly positive articles and other material about grammar-teaching. If you would like to contribute something, please tell us about it. We especially welcome case-studies and research reports, but opinion is also welcome. Please try to classify it according to the following scheme if you can, but it’s ok to list items under more than one heading.
Most of the material contributed so far has concerned the teaching of L1 English, so we’re particularly keen to add material on the teaching of foreign languages (indicated below by FL).
Why teach grammar?
- Geoff Barton: Grammar without shame
- Ron Carter: Grammar and Stylistics (in the study of literature)
- Dan Clayton and Dick Hudson: Give us a golden age of grammar
- David Crystal: In word and deed. There’s no need to be a grammar-phobe.
- Dick Hudson: Why teach grammar?
- Geoffrey Leech: Grammar and composition
- Mike Sharwood Smith: The role of conscious learning in acquiring a second language FL
- Mike Swan: Grammar FL
What grammar?
- Geoff Barton and Dick Hudson: About 100 short columns about grammar-teaching from the TES
- Dan Clayton: What Rastamouse can tell us about grammar
- Dan Clayton: “Correcting” local dialect and slang
- Dan Clayton: A marriage made in hell
- Dick Hudson: A growing collection of grammatical diagramming systems from round the world
- Diane Larsen-Freeman: The Grammar of Choice FL
- Diane Larsen-Freeman: Helping students make appropriate verb-tense-aspect choices FL
- Mike Swan: Teaching grammar – does grammar teaching work? FL
How to teach grammar?
- David Crystal: A 21st century grammar bridge.
- Nick Ellis: Implicit and explicit knowledge about language FL
- Rod Ellis: Making an Impact -Teaching Grammar Through Awareness-Raising FL
- Marcello Giovanelli: Teaching modality (NATE 2013 ‘Teaching English’)
- Diane Larsen-Freeman: Teaching and Testing Grammar FL
- Debra Myhill: Designs on writing: 1 — 2 (sentences) — 3 (paragraphs)
- Sue Palmer: Avoiding the grammar trap.
- Agneta Svalberg: A Consciousness Raising Approach to the Teaching of Grammar. FL
- Anette Wulff: VISL in Danish schools. FL
Learn grammar
- Bas Aarts, Dan Clayton, Sean Wallis: Bridging the Grammar Gap: teaching English grammar to the iPhone generation – University College London
- Englicious – the online grammar resources for teachers
- a short video about Englicious in a primary school
- The University of Marburg’s Virtual Linguistics Campus (follow: ‘Lecture Hall’ > ‘English Linguistics (for teachers)’)
- The Marburg ‘MOOC‘ (Massive Open Online Course) on linguistics – free!.
- David Crystal: A 21st century grammar bridge.
- Dick Hudson: KS3 Grammar