Reforming English Language Arts: Let's Trash the Tradition

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...

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Published in:Phi Delta Kappan 1999-03, Vol.80 (7), p.518-524
Main Author: Schuster, Edgar H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adverbs
Change Strategies
Coding
Definitions
Educational Change
Elementary Secondary Education
English
English Instruction
English language
English teachers
Generative Grammar
Grade 1
Grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language and languages
Language Arts
Literacy Education
Native Language
Native Speakers
Nouns
Parts of speech
Pronouns
Relative clauses
Sanitation
Sentences
Standard Spoken Usage
Study and teaching
Syntax
Teachers
Teaching
Terminology
Traditional Grammar
Transformational Generative Grammar
Urban Schools
Verbs
Words
Writing instruction
Written Language
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Summary: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)
ISSN:0031-7217
1940-6487