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Savage, John E. – Elementary English, 1972
Examines the reason why new grammar has failed to make the impact that was predicted fifteen or so years ago.(RB)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Grammar, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition
Download full textASTON, KATHARINE O. – 1967
THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM CAN BE MADE MORE EFFECTIVE BY CONSIDERING THE SIGNIFICANT PART PLAYED BY THE COMPONENT OF GRAMMAR. THE NATIVE SPEAKER OF ENGLISH POSSESSES AN INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE RULES OF GRAMMAR AND YET CANNOT EXPLAIN WHAT HIS INTUITION KNOWS. THEREFORE, A PRECISE, ECONOMICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE LANGUAGE MECHANISM AND HOW IT FUNCTIONS…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Grammar
Peer reviewedGann, Marjorie – English Quarterly, 1984
Discusses the continuing controversy over how to teach grammar. Finds that the traditional, structural, and transformational approaches each have their strengths and weaknesses, with none clearly better than the others. Suggests that the teaching of grammar, while not the key to improvement in written English, will always have a place in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, English, English Curriculum
A Sound Curriculum in English Grammar: Guidelines for Teachers and Parents. Occasional Paper No. 23.
Oliver, Kenneth – 1976
This paper is divided into the following five sections, each of which considers an aspect of teaching grammar: the importance of teaching English grammar, teaching the patterns of words and sentences, the functions of words, making sentences, and a curriculum proposal for teaching standard English in the elementary grades through high school. (LL)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
Palmer, Joe Darwin – 1969
This study summarizes the kinds of English grammar currently taught in American secondary schools and describes the effects of curriculum proposals by scholars upon the teaching of language and composition. A survey of grammar from classical Greek and Roman times to the present precedes a description of specific types of grammar (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Diachronic Linguistics
Instructional Objectives Exchange, Los Angeles, CA. – 1972
This revised collection of 249 objectives and related evaluation items for kindergarten through twelfth grades is organized into two sections: (1) Grammatical Form, and (2) Sentence Analysis. This text departs from many traditional grammar materials by having parts of speech featured in two sections: (1) Form and word meaning (including comparison…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Curriculum Development in English. – 1968
This unit is intended to give ninth-grade students a brief survey of the changes in the study of language from the time of the Greeks to the present. Organized to proceed from the teacher's introduction of a subject to class examination and discussion of an excerpt from a grammarian's work, the unit focuses on the belief that a grammarian's…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Diachronic Linguistics, English, English Curriculum
