Grammar Instruction (North America)

LINKS! and discussion lists

Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar (ATEG)  WEBSITE
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Another discussion list, "teach-ling," aims to promote the "active learning" of language. Educators on the list represent a broad range of instructional contexts -- ESL, EFL, and native language (including English) education at different grade levels. The advantage is that contributors are explicit in their requests and recommendations about the relevant instructional context. You can find reviews, for instance (in the archives) that compare introductory texts for different student populations. To subscribe, send a message to teach-ling-request@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu with the request "subscribe" in the body of the message.

Discussions of grammar are also archived on the NCTE website. You can search the site for references to grammar instruction, or go directly to the beginning of a thread on this topc from the "talk-kitchen" discussion list: http://www.ncte.org/lists/ncte-talk/aug2000/msg01622.html

A visit to the website for the linguistics Olympics is richly rewarding in itself, and it provides a set of links to other language-related websites. All of these sites offer ideas, activities, and materials for classroom use. (Reference thanks to Herb Stahlke)

Selective bibliography
All the references listed here are relevant to the project of
connecting sentence-level grammar to text-level meanings

Coe, R. (1987). An apology for form; or, who took the form out of the process? College English. 49, 1 (13-28). January.

Coe, R. (1988). Toward a Grammar of Passages. Conference on College Composition and Communication of the National Council of Teachers of English. Go to abstract.

Christensen F. and Christensen B. (1978). Notes Toward a New Rhetoric: Nine Essays for Teachers. NY: Harper & Row.

Daiker, D. A., Kerek, A., and Morenberg, M. (1990). The Writer's Options: Combining to Composing. 4th Edition. NY: Harper & Row

Dykstra, P. (2000). Rhythms of Writing. NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. Go to abstract.

Hartnett, C. (2000). Meaning First -- A Functional Handbook with Fifty Ways to Polish Your Writing. Superior WI: Parlay Press. Go to abstract.

Huddleston, R. What Is an Appropriate Model of Grammar for Teachers?

Hunter, S. and Wallace, R. (1995). The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction: Past, Present, Future. Portsmouth, NH: Boyton/Cook Publishers.

Hunston, S. (1995). Grammar in teacher education: the role of a corpus. Language Awareness. 4, 1(15-31). Go to Abstract.

Kolln, M. (1991). Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects. NY: Macmillan.

Morenberg, M. (1991). Doing Grammar. NY: Oxford University Press.

Neuleib, J. and Brosnahan, I. (1987). Teaching grammar to writers. Journal of Basic Writing. 6, 1 (28-35).

Noden, Harry. Image Grammar: Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing. Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1999. ISBN 0-86709-466-6. $24. To order, 1-800-793-2154

Noguchi, R. (1991). Grammar and the Teaching of Writing: Limits and Possibilities. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English

Parker, F. and Campbell, K. Sydow. (1993). Linguistics and writing: a reassessment. College Composition and Communication. 44, 3 (295-314). October. \

Provost, G. (1990). Make Your Words Work. Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books.

Shaughnessy, M. P. (1977). Errors & Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. NY: Oxford University Press.

Streed J. (1993). Labeling for form and functiong. (85-87). September.

Svalberg, A. (1995). Meanings into pictures: icons for teaching grammar. Language Awareness. 4, 2 (65-87).

Vande Kopple, W. J. (1982). Functional sentence perspective, composition, and reading. College Composition and Communication. 33, 1 (50-61). February.

Vande Kopple, W. J. (1991). Themes, thematic progressions, and some implications for understanding discourse. Written Communication. 8, 3 (311-347). July

Vande Kopple, W. J. (1997). Refining and Applying Views of Metadiscourse. Go to abstract.

Vande Kopple, W. J. (1998). Current Research on Language and Its Status with Composition Teachers. Go to abstract.

Vande Kopple, W.J. (1996). Rhetorical or Functional Grammar and the Teaching of Composition. Go to abstract.

Vande Kopple, W.J. (1995). Some Explorations of the Synoptic and Dynamic Styles. Go to abstract.

Vande Kopple, W. J. (1982). Functional Sentence Perspective and Some Related Recent Work in Discourse Analysis. Go to abstract.

Warner, A. (1993). If the shoe no longer fits, wear it anyway? English Journal. 82, 5 (76-80). September.

Weaver, C. (1998). Lessons to Share On Teaching Grammar in Context. Portsmouth, NH: Boyton/Cook Publishers.

(1993). Mini-lessons on language (the round table). English Journal. 82, 1 (75-77). Go to Abstract.
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