Reforming English Language Arts: Let's Trash the Tradition.

Schuster, Edgar H.

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ERIC Number: EJ581589

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Reforming English Language Arts: Let's Trash the Tradition.

Schuster, Edgar H.

Phi Delta Kappan, v80 n7 p518-24 Mar 1999

Teachers should stop teaching traditional school-room grammar entirely. There is no reason to wound youngsters with something they will never learn and never need. Instead, teachers should treat usage and mechanics in gentle, encouraging, nontechnical, and innovative ways. A communication correctly understood by a native speaker is grammatical. (11 references) (MLH)

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Definitions, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Language Arts, Literacy Education, Traditional Grammar

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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