Andrew,

     Are you researching for a book or an article that you are writing (or plan to)? I’m very much interested in what you find. My own sense of what you will find is posted on the KISS grammar site. See:  http://home.pct.edu/~evavra/ED498/Essay007_Crime.htm

The project you are undertaking is very difficult and time-consuming. It will also be very controversial. I’ll be interested in what you discover and especially in anything that you publish about it. I’m contemplating a book about the teaching of grammar in K-12, a book for the general public, possibly a book titled Deadly Grammar Textbooks. Obviously, who teaches the teachers effects what the teachers are taught, and thus what teachers can say about what they are supposed to teach.

Thanks,

Ed Vavra

http://home.pct.edu/~evavra/KISS.htm

 

 

 

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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