Liz, I don't know of a film relating specifically to grammar, and I
don't know exactly what your course content is. But a film about
literacy that I love and always show in classes that touch on that
subject, is EDUCATING RITA, with Michael Caine and Julie Walters.
It's about a working-class English woman (she's a hairdresser) who
comes to the university at 26. As you may imagine, university
literacy changes her life. In part, it relates to changing dialect,
and it certainly relates to improving her writing skills and to
learning how to read canonical literature. Not specifically grammar,
but tangential. I've never shown it in a "grammar" course, but I've
often shown it in a history of the language course, when we reach the
section on how the printing press and the spread of literacy change
language. Whether it fits your course or not, I recommend the movie.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Max




>Many of you gave me helpful suggestions for texts to use in a
>graduate-level "grammar for teachers" class I'm teaching this fall.  I'm
>wondering if and how any of you use film--both documentaries and
>popular--to illustrate or convey course content.....I look forward to
>hearing your ideas!  Liz Spalding
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