Beyond the grammar wars
Subtitle: a resource for teachers and students on developing language knowledge in the English/literacy classroom
By: edited by Terry Locke.
Contributors: Locke, Terry, 1946-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415802642; 9780415802659; 9780203854358
Subjects: Second language acquisition; Language and languages -- Grammars; Grammar, Comparative and general
Notes: Contents: Preface 1. Introduction: Grammar Wars and beyond Terry Locke Part I: The Grammar Wars in context 2. Blowin in the wind: English grammar in United States schools. Martha Kolln and Craig Hancock 3. The problematics of prescribing grammatical knowledge: The case in England Urszula Clark 4. The Grammar Wars in Australia Frances Christie 5. Knowledge about language in the English classroom: A Scottish perspective Graeme Trousdale Part II: The effectiveness of grammar teaching: The research record 6. Teaching sentence-level grammar for writing: The evidence so far Richard Andrews 7. Explicit teaching of grammar: Does it help students to become better writers? Amos van Gelderen 8. Ways of knowing: Writing with grammar in mind Debra Myhill Part III: Into the classroom: Integrating knowledge about language with learning 9. Language as a system of meaning potential: The reading and design of verbal texts Hilary Janks 10. Discovering a metalanguage for all seasons: Bringing literary language in from the cold Terry Locke 11. Scaffolding grammar instruction for writers and writing Constance Weaver 12. Primary school children learning grammar: Rethinking the possibilities Ruth French Section IV: Beyond print: A metalanguage for multimodal texts 13. A grammar for meaning-making Gunther Kress 14. Schemas for meaning-making and multimodal texts Anne Cloonan, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope 15. Resourcing multimodal literacy pedagogy: Towards a description of the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction Len Unsworth 16. Rules of grammar, rules of play: Computer games, literacy, and literature Andrew Burn."