Haven't heard much from ATEG of late. Today I was working on a
curriculum proposal for a course entitled "English Grammar and
Style," taught at the sophomore level. Coincidentally (and
most timely!), in my e-mail appeared a LINGUIST post from a woman
in Finland who had collected references on teachng English grammar
for a course proposal of her own.
Thinking some of you may not receive LINGUIST, I am
attaching the bibliography here. I'd be happy to send along
the whole post (it's long) to anyone interested.
If you don't subscribe to LINGUIST, you might enjoy it!
(Write to LISTSERV at their address below.)
Regards,
Carolyn Kirkpatrick
York College/CUNY
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:21:32 +0200
From: [log in to unmask] (Deborah D K Ruuskanen)
Subject: Re: Summary of Teaching English Grammar /Textbooks
Re: Teaching English Grammar / English Grammar Textbooks
Summary of Survey of Teaching of English Grammar in Universities:
Prescriptive and Descriptive and Magical
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First let me thank all of you who took the time to respond. Your input
was greatly appreciated. . . .
In particular I would like to thank Joanne Zoller Wagner, who sent me a
summary of her MA TESOL thesis (her doctoral dissertation), which was a
description of "The Status of English Grammar Instruction in Master's
Programs in TESOL in the U.S." The dissertation is available from UMI
Dissertation Services, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor MI 48103, USA (UMI
number 9543889).
Special thanks also to Stefan Martin, who very kindly sent me a copy of
his syllabus and an interesting and pertinent article, which discusses
grammar as an example of "magical thinking", the assumption that
students will learn only what we teach and only because we teach:
Hartwell, Patrick (1985) "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of
Grammar", in: College English, Vol. 47 No. 2, February 1985. p. 105-
The textbooks which were recommended are listed at the end of this
message. Many respondents remarked that students tended to criticize
the textbooks because they did NOT give the rules the students needed to
memorize to "have all they needed to be able to teach grammar" (a
grammar course seems to be required for teachers in many states of the
USA): because the students did not want to criticize the teacher, they
(bitterly) criticized the text.
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LIST OF RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS: aphabetical by author. Most teachers also
put together packets of handouts and exercises that they produced
themselves. I would appreciate anyone supplying me with the missing
bibliographical information. [See address at the end.]
[NOTE: I have supplied some of the missing information
& spaced out the items. CK]
BUTT, D., FAHEY, R., SPINKS, S. AND YALLOP, C. (1995) Using Functional
Grammar: An explorer's guide. National Centre for English Language
Teaching and Research, Macquarie University. ISBN 1-86408-044-2. (my
choice for basic text)
DELAHUNTY, Gerald P. & GARVEY, James J. (1994) Language, Grammar and
Communication: A Course for Teachers of English. McGraw
Hill -- good discussion of the prescriptive/descriptive differences,
covers the major language usage issues.
DIXON, RMW (1991) A New Approach to English Grammar, on Semantic
Principles. OUP, Oxford.
GIVON, T. (1993) English Grammar: A Function-Based Approach. Vols.
I&II. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.
GREENBAUM & QUIRK (????) A Student's Grammar of the English Language.
Longman.
GREENBAUM (????) A College Grammar of English. Longman.
HUDDLESTON, R. (1988) English Grammar: an outline. CUP Cambridge. (a
short descriptive overview)
JACKSON, Howard (1990) Grammar and Meaning: A Semantic Approach to
English Grammar. Longman ISBN 0-582-02875-2 (Learning about Language
Series).
KAPLAN, Jeffrey P. (1989) English Grammar: Principles and Facts.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. also listed as simply "English
Grammar", which I assume is the same text. (mentioned four times)
KLAMMER & SCHULTZ (1995) Analyzing English Grammar, 2nd edition.
Allyn&Bacon (mentioned three times)
KOLLN, Martha. (4th ed., 1994) Understanding English Grammar. Macmillan.
(mentioned three times)
LEECH & SVARTVIK (1994) A Communicative Grammar of English, 2nd ed.
Longman.
MILROY, James and Leslie (????) Authority in Language: Investigating
Language Prescription and Standardization.
MORENBERG, Max. (1991) Doing Grammar. OUP, NY & Oxford.
QUIRK & GREENBAUM (1973) A University Grammar of English. Longman.
RADDEN, Guenter (due mid-1996) (working title) A Cognitive Grammar of
English. to appear in the new John Benjamins series CLiP (Cognitive
Linguistics in Practice). Details from Benjamins (I await this with
anticipation.)
SEDLEY (????) Anatomy of English. St. Martin's.
THOMAS (????) Beginning Syntax. Blackwell. -- basic, tree structures,
generative but without the theory or any movement or levels
WARDHAUGH, Ronald (1995) Understanding English Grammar: A linguistic
approach. Blackwell. Oxford UK. ISBN-0-631-19641-2 ISBN 0-631-19642-0
(pbk.) (lots of very good examples, good exercises, generative
approach)
ARTICLES
NUNBERG, Geoff (1983) "Grammar Wars" The Atlantic Monthly: December.
Pinker, Steven (????) "It speaks for itself" NewYorkTimes (NYT) article
PULLUM (????) 4"Here Come the Linguistic Fascists"
SANBORN (1986) "Grammar: Good wine before its time" English Journal:
March.
VAVRA (1987) "Grammar and Syntax: The student's perspective" English
Journal: October
RECOMMENDED HANDBOOKS (security blankets)
The Bedford Handbook for Writers
The Harbrace College Handbook
Rediscover Grammar with David Crystal ( a quick review with cartoons)
St. Martin's Handbook
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Leankuja 1, FIN-01420 Vantaa \ you can only help him find it
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