Of course, academics have been debating how best to teach English grammar forever—Martha Kolln and Craig Hancock in “The Story of English Grammar in United States Schools” cite “minimalist ...

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Donna Fisher, resource teacher for English language arts for the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area, has been creating rap songs — about 200 — for the past 20 years as a tool to teach middle ...

Even the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has a position statement on not teaching grammar in isolation. Let’s be honest, it is impossible to try to shove every grammar skill into ...

Bored with the standard grammar exercises, a teacher in Portugal got creative, creating crimes for students to solve. By Charlotte Lytton Rachael Boon / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic November 24, 2015 ...

I’m sure I was an outlier, but I liked seeing how words came together to form ideas. In fact, I still have Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1951).

There has been a push to change this situation. The new Australian English Curriculum for primary and secondary school, for example, emphasises learning grammar systematically and explicitly.

This system of teaching English grammar is by no means extinct. It still persists in the mind of many a schoolmaster, and keeps cropping up here and there in elementary textbooks.

Schools are wasting their time teaching children the rules of English grammar because there is no evidence that it has any impact on pupils' writing skills, a government-funded study has concluded.

During this period, teaching English and teaching grammar were virtually synonymous. Questions on whether and how to teach grammar arose during the mid-1980s, as communicative language teaching, which ...