Language Alive in the Classroom

Herausgeber: Wheeler, Rebecca S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780275960551
• ISBN-10: 0275960552
• Artikelnr.: 25569852

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Rebecca S. Wheeler Beyond Grammar of the Traditional Kind
Grammar, Tradition and the Living Language by David B. Umbach The
Persistence of Traditional Grammar by Edwin Battistella Prestige English Is
not a Natural Language by Nicholas Sobin New Ways in the Classroom Dialect
Awareness Programs in the School and Community by Walt Wolfram Linguistics
Is for Kids by Jeannine M. Donna Looking at Life Through Language by
Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza In Front of Our Eyes: Undergraduates Reflecting
on Language Change by Anca Nemoianu Grammar Teaching Is Dead--NOT! by
Richard Hudson Language and Writing Writing Standard English IS Acquiring a
Second Language by Susan K. Heck Reading, Writing and Linguistics:
Principles from the Little Red Schoolhouse by Gail Brandel Viechnicki
Copious Reasoning: The Student Writer as an Astute Observer of Language by
Todd Oakley Writing Well in an Unknown Language: Linguistics and
Composition in an English Department by Victor Raskin Language and
Literature Waterships All the Way Down: Using Science Fiction to Teach
Linguistics by Suzette Haden Elgin In Fiction, Whose Speech, Whose Vision?
by Elizabeth Closs Traugott The Poetics of Everyday Conversation by Deborah
Tannen On Dictionaries and Grammars Who Wrote Your Dictionary?:
Demystifying the Contents and Construction of Dictionaries by Sylvia Shaw
Online Resources for Grammar Teaching and Learning: The Internet Grammar of
English by Bas Aarts, Gerald Nelson, and Justin Buckley Index