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An excellent question!

 

Looking back, I've always loved words, wordplay, reading, writing, breaking
words down, and, yes, even diagramming sentences.  I taught myself to read
at age four, so it's hard to remember which came first, the chicken
(reading) or the egg (loving to study all-things-English, including
grammar).  Now, as a writer, it's all about the best way to frame sentences
in order to encapsulate the image, or the meaning, or the tone of voice.and,
well, because I love thinking about grammar.

 

From a creative writing aspect, we might be able to engage students if we
discuss good dialogue.  Since people do not speak formal/standardized
English all the time, a writer has to know how an individual character
'sounds' and let the character 'speak' in his/her own way.  If nothing else,
I think using dialogue creation exercises could teach, in a roundabout way,
the difference between formal/informal structures.

 

-patty

 

From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Erin Karl
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 4:10 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: intrinsic motivation for studying grammar

 

I joke that it was beat into me from a young age!

My mother taught 8th grade language arts for 34 years.  She always felt
grammar was important to teach.  When we moved to Alaska in 1981 her dept
chairs refused to buy her grammar materials (the whole "research proves you
don't have to teach grammar" thing).  She went home and began writing her
own out of necessity.  

Fast forward to today.  We now sell her curriculum to public, charter,
private, and home schools.  We even have a college edition!  It really has
become a passion for me. 

I bucked the idea for years that I would follow in Mom's footsteps.  Well
... here I am!  I own the company now and make my living running our
company.  The international headquarters is my basement!

Erin
Analytical Grammar

 

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From: David Kehe <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Fri, September 3, 2010 3:46:24 PM
Subject: intrinsic motivation for studying grammar

I imagine that most of us on this listserv have an intrinsic interest in
studying grammar.  In other words, we study it just for the joy of it.  But
why?  Is it in our DNA to find grammar so interesting?  Did someone, for
example, a former teacher, do something that instilled in us this interest?


I would be interested to hear from any of you why you like grammar so much
and/or how you came to like it.  It seems that if we could figure out what
makes it so interesting to some, we might be able to come up with ways that
we could help our students develop an intrinsic motivation for studying it
too.

Thanks,

David Kehe
Bellingham, WA

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