This practical book is chiefly intended to help English teachers tackle an area of the new English programme that causes anxiety and about which a large proportion are still uncertain: grammar.
Grammar has been an uncertain classroom topic for many years; taught often as a duty, without real progression. In this book, the latest knowledge about grammar is treated as a central component of the meaning making process, in both reading and writing. Pupils can become better readers and write with greater confidence and control as a result of using this approach to grammar. Teachers of other subjects may also benefit from knowing how to integrate some grammatical teaching into the textual interactions of their lessons.
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Introduction;
Chapter 1 Grammar Wars: Grammar Teaching Since 1950;
Chapter 2 What Sort of Grammar Study Could Improve Language Use?;
Chapter 3
Creating a School Context for Language Teaching;
Chapter 4 An Outline of the
Sorts of Grammar that Pupils and Their Teachers Need to Know;
Chapter 5 Using
Grammar to Improve Reading;
Chapter 6 Using Grammar to Improve Writing;
Geoff Dean taught English and Drama in secondary schools for twenty years before taking up advisory and inspection work, currently in Milton Keynes where his responsibilities include introducing the National Literacy Strategy.
