Beyond the grammar wars : a resource for teachers and students on developing language knowledge in the English/literacy classroom / / edited by Terry Locke

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 428.0071
• Soggetto topico: Second language acquisition; Language and languages - Grammars; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Altri autori: LockeTerry <1946->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: "Grammar Wars" and Beyond; Part I: The "Grammar Wars" in Context; Chapter 2 Blowin' in the Wind: English Grammar in United States Schools; Chapter 3 The Problematics of Prescribing Grammatical Knowledge: The Case in England; Chapter 4 The "Grammar Wars" in Australia; Chapter 5 Knowledge about Language in the English Classroom: A Scottish Perspective; Part II: The Effectiveness of Grammar Teaching: The Research Record; Chapter 6 Teaching Sentence-Level Grammar for Writing: The Evidence So Far ; Chapter 7 Does Explicit Teaching of Grammar Help Students to Become Better Writers?: Insights from Empirical ResearchChapter 8 Ways of Knowing: Grammar as a Tool for Developing Writing; Part III: Into the Classroom: Integrating Knowledge about Language with Learning; Chapter 9 "Language as a System of Meaning Potential": The Reading and Design of Verbal Texts; Chapter 10 Discovering a Metalanguage for All Seasons: Bringing Literary Language in from the Cold; Chapter 11 Scaffolding Grammar Instruction for Writers and Writing ; Chapter 12 Primary School Children Learning Grammar: Rethinking the PossibilitiesPart IV: Beyond Print: A Metalanguage for Multimodal Texts; Chapter 13 A Grammar for Meaning-Making; Chapter 14 Schemas for Meaning-Making and Multimodal Texts; Chapter 15 Resourcing Multimodal Literacy Pedagogy: Toward a Description of the Meaning-Making Resources of Language-Image Interaction; Chapter 16 Rules of Grammar, Rules of Play: Computer Games, Literacy and Literature; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 settings: the US, England, Scotland and Australia offers an up-to-date account of what the research is telling (and not telling) us about the effectiveness of certain kinds of grammar-based pedagogies in English/li
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the grammar wars
• ISBN: 1-136-98997-8; 1-136-98998-6; 1-282-56976-7; 9786612569760; 0-203-85435-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818240303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II