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Beyond the Grammar Wars: A Resource for Teachers and Students on Developing Language Knowledge in the English/Literacy Classroom book cover

1st Edition

Beyond the Grammar Wars A Resource for Teachers and Students on Developing Language Knowledge in the English/Literacy Classroom

Edited By Terry Locke Copyright 2010
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
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Are there evidence-based answers to the broad question "What explicit knowledge about language in teachers and/or students appears to enhance literacy development in some way"? Distinguished by its global perspective, its currency, and its comprehensiveness, Beyond the Grammar Wars : provides an historical overview of the debates around grammar and English/literacy teaching in four... Read more

Contents

Preface

  1. Introduction: "Grammar Wars" and beyond

    2. Terry Locke

    Part I: The "Grammar Wars" in context

  2. Blowin’ in the wind: English grammar in United States schools.

    3. Martha Kolln and Craig Hancock

  3. The problematics of prescribing grammatical knowledge: The case in England

    4. Urszula Clark

  4. The Grammar Wars in Australia

    5. Frances Christie

  5. Knowledge about language in the English classroom: A Scottish perspective

    6. Graeme Trousdale

    Part II: The effectiveness of grammar teaching: The research record

  6. Teaching sentence-level grammar for writing: The evidence so far

    7. Richard Andrews

  7. Explicit teaching of grammar: Does it help students to become better writers?

    8. Amos van Gelderen

  8. Ways of knowing: Writing with grammar in mind

    9. 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

    10. Hilary Janks

  10. Discovering a metalanguage for all seasons: Bringing literary language in from the cold

    11. Terry Locke

  11. Scaffolding grammar instruction for writers and writing

    12. Constance Weaver

  12. Primary school children learning grammar: Rethinking the possibilities

    13. Ruth French

    　

    Section IV: Beyond print: A metalanguage for multimodal texts

  13. A grammar for meaning-making

    14. Gunther Kress

  14. Schemas for meaning-making and multimodal texts

    15. Anne Cloonan, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope

  15. Resourcing multimodal literacy pedagogy: Towards a description of the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction

    16. Len Unsworth

  16. Rules of grammar, rules of play: Computer games, literacy, and literature

Andrew Burn

List of Contributors

Biography

Terry Locke is Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of Arts and Language Education in the School of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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