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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 ...

The public understanding of grammar is in bad shape. There is blame to go round, but the simplest approach is to look at the teaching of the subject known as “English” at schools and universities.

While grammar made a comeback in 1988, with the introduction of the national curriculum, many teachers today feel ill-prepared to teach it. And that’s because, as I and other language experts have ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...