Language Alive in the Classroom

AvRebecca S. Wheeler,Rebecca S. Wheeler

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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A common concern of teachers in the English-speaking world is that students at all levels often show very little knowledge of grammar. As traditionally taught (if taught at all), grammar is a dry, prescriptive subject and one that students often dislike and therefore do not learn well. In this edited collection, distinguished teachers offer a vibrant alternative by sharing the ways in which they make grammar and writing interesting and exciting to their students. These contributors show how to bring language alive in the classroom.Concrete, animated articles explain how students (elementary through college) can discover language structure in contemporary classrooms. Examples of imaginative learning techniques include doing fieldwork to explore the language of home, neighborhood, and workplace. Freed from scowling linguistic admonitions, students develop a careful eye in exploring the patterns of our living language in its myriad manifestations, from speaking, writing, reading literature, and finally, in our language reference works.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-09-30
Mått:156 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:539 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780275960551

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Pedagogisk metodik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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REBECCA S. WHEELER teaches writing, grammar, and linguistics in the English Department at Christopher Newport University in Virginia.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction by Rebecca S. WheelerBeyond Grammar of the Traditional KindGrammar, Tradition and the Living Language by David B. UmbachThe Persistence of Traditional Grammar by Edwin BattistellaPrestige English Is not a Natural Language by Nicholas SobinNew Ways in the ClassroomDialect Awareness Programs in the School and Community by Walt WolframLinguistics Is for Kids by Jeannine M. DonnaLooking at Life Through Language by Patricia MacGregor-MendozaIn Front of Our Eyes: Undergraduates Reflecting on Language Change by Anca NemoianuGrammar Teaching Is Dead--NOT! by Richard HudsonLanguage and WritingWriting Standard English IS Acquiring a Second Language by Susan K. HeckReading, Writing and Linguistics: Principles from the Little Red Schoolhouse by Gail Brandel ViechnickiCopious Reasoning: The Student Writer as an Astute Observer of Language by Todd OakleyWriting Well in an Unknown Language: Linguistics and Composition in an English Department by Victor RaskinLanguage and LiteratureWaterships All the Way Down: Using Science Fiction to Teach Linguistics by Suzette Haden ElginIn Fiction, Whose Speech, Whose Vision? by Elizabeth Closs TraugottThe Poetics of Everyday Conversation by Deborah TannenOn Dictionaries and GrammarsWho Wrote Your Dictionary?: Demystifying the Contents and Construction of Dictionaries by Sylvia ShawOnline Resources for Grammar Teaching and Learning: The Internet Grammar of English by Bas Aarts, Gerald Nelson, and Justin BuckleyIndex