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

 

 

 

 

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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