Beyond the grammar wars : a resource for teachers and students on developing language knowledge in the English/literacy classroom / edited by Terry Locke. - ix, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: "Grammar Wars" and beyond / The "Grammar Wars" in context -- Blowin' in the wind: English grammar in United States schools / The problematics of prescribing grammatical knowledge: The case in England / The Grammar Wars in Australia / Knowledge about language in the English classroom: A Scottish perspective / The effectiveness of grammar teaching: The research record -- Teaching sentence-level grammar for writing: The evidence so far / Explicit teaching of grammar: Does it help students to become better writers? / Ways of knowing: Writing with grammar in mind / Into the classroom: Integrating knowledge about language with learning -- "Language as a system of meaning potential": The reading and design of verbal texts / Discovering a metalanguage for all seasons: Bringing literary language in from the cold / Scaffolding grammar instruction for writers and writing / Primary school children learning grammar: Rethinking the possibilities / Beyond print: A metalanguage for multimodal texts -- A grammar for meaning-making / Schemas for meaning-making and multimodal texts / Resourcing multimodal literacy pedagogy: Towards a description of the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction / Rules of grammar, rules of play: Computer games, literacy, and literature / Terry Locke -- Martha Kolln and Craig Hancock -- Urszula Clark -- Frances Christie -- Graeme Trousdale -- Richard Andrews -- Amos van Gelderen -- Debra Myhill -- Hilary Janks -- Terry Locke -- Constance Weaver -- Ruth French -- Gunther Kress -- Anne Cloonan, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope -- Len Unsworth -- Andrew Burn. 1. Part I. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. Part III. 9. 10. 11. 12. Section IV. 13. 14. 15. 16.

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Second language acquisition.
Language and languages--Grammars.
Grammar, Comparative and general.

P118.2 / .B485 2010

428.0071