In a message dated 8/23/06 1:38:59 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:


My memory is not very sharp about this, but I think there was a NCTE study of middle schoolers to see if teaching them transformational grammar would affect their writing. I believe it was in the 60's or 70's.


Marshall, perhaps the study you are referring to is this one:

Elley, W. B., I. H. Barham, H. Lamb, and M. Wyllie.  "The Role of Grammar in a Secondary School English Curriculum." 
Research in the Teaching of English  10.1(Spring 1976): 5-21.

Peter Adams



Peter Adams
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