In this resource, we explore how grammar can be taught rhetorically where the focus is on the learner understanding the writing situation, making effective choices while constructing sentences, ...

Leif Fearn, Nancy Farnan, When Is a Verb? Using Functional Grammar to Teach Writing, Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 26, No. 1 (SPRING 2007), pp. 63-87 ...

Grammar has never been this much fun! GOAT Grammar games get primary students excited about language — alongside a bunch of ...

Adopting a functional perspective that views grammar as a rich resource for making contextualized meanings in a culture- and language-specific way, the article reconsiders the role of explicit grammar ...

Improve your teaching skills and get tips on how to teach with The Teachers' Room, our series of teaching tips to help you in the classroom. On this page you'll find a range of teaching techniques ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...

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.

The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

Plans to focus on grammar and spelling in primary-school English teaching will impoverish the subject, experts say.