Beyond the Grammar Wars : A Resource for Teachers and Students on Developing Language Knowledge in the English/Literacy Classroom (Paperback)

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: "Grammar Wars" and beyond

Terry Locke

Part I: The "Grammar Wars" in context

2. Blowin’ in the wind: English grammar in United States schools.

Martha Kolln and Craig Hancock

3. The problematics of prescribing grammatical knowledge: The case in England

Urszula Clark

4. The Grammar Wars in Australia

Frances Christie

5. Knowledge about language in the English classroom: A Scottish perspective

Graeme Trousdale

Part II: The effectiveness of grammar teaching: The research record

6. Teaching sentence-level grammar for writing: The evidence so far

Richard Andrews

7. Explicit teaching of grammar: Does it help students to become better writers?

Amos van Gelderen

8. Ways of knowing: Writing with grammar in mind

Debra Myhill

Part III: Into the classroom: Integrating knowledge about language with learning

9. "Language as a system of meaning potential": The reading and design of verbal texts

Hilary Janks

10. Discovering a metalanguage for all seasons: Bringing literary language in from the cold

Terry Locke

11. Scaffolding grammar instruction for writers and writing

Constance Weaver

12. Primary school children learning grammar: Rethinking the possibilities

Ruth French

　

Section IV: Beyond print: A metalanguage for multimodal texts

13. A grammar for meaning-making

Gunther Kress

14. Schemas for meaning-making and multimodal texts

Anne Cloonan, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope

15. Resourcing multimodal literacy pedagogy: Towards a description of the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction

Len Unsworth

16. Rules of grammar, rules of play: Computer games, literacy, and literature

Andrew Burn

List of Contributors