At my institution, both the generic grammar course ("Modern Grammar")
and the teaching-methods course ("Pedagogic Grammar") are housed within
the English department, as is a survey-style linguistics introduction
that focuses on a fair amount of sociolinguistic material that is of
concern to teachers (it's a required course for English education
majors). I and two colleagues teach the "linguistic-y" courses; we're
all Ph.Ds. I'm a linguist who teaches some of the grammar sections as
well as History of English and Old English (I was basically hired as
"Swiss-Army Linguist for English Department"). One of my colleagues has
a degree in Educational Linguistics and teaches grammar sections as well
as our TESOL methodology courses; the other colleague is a
sociophoneticist who teaches the survey course, among other things. We
also have a graduate-level "English Grammar for Language Teachers" in
our TESOL program; I'm the one who usually teaches that. 

 

Good question, by the way! 

 

Bill Spruiell

Dept. of English

Central Michigan University

 

 

 

From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
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Subject: Who Teaches the Grammar Course?

 

Dear ATEG members:

 

I'm researching who most typically teaches the grammar course (or
preferably two or more classes involving study of language, grammar,
and/or methods of incorporating language instruction into one's
curriculum) in programs that prepare secondary education students in
English Language Arts.  Are people with PhDs in linguistics more
commonly recruited?  Or those with some combination of linguistics,
education, comp/rhet, etc.?  I'd love to hear about the backgrounds of
people who typically teach such courses at your instititutions.

 

Thanks so much,

 

Andrew

 

 

 

 

 

Andrew Smyth

Assistant Professor of English

Southern Connecticut State University

501 Crescent Street

New Haven, CT  06515

(203) 392-5113

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