The geography of grammar teaching

This page is about how grammar is taught (if at all) in different countries. It is work in progress so I welcome comments and contributions. See also the collection of international organisations with an interest in linguistics and education.

Other international comparisons

All the journals are online and open-access.

• • Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language and Literature (published by the Autonomous University of Barcelona)
    • 2020, #13.3: Current Research on Grammar Teaching. What is the Use of Teaching Grammar? 
    • 2020, #13.2: Current Research on Grammar Teaching. Plural perspectives
  • Didacticae (published by the University of Barcelona)
    • 2020, #8. Perspectives on the teaching of grammar: Curriculum, didactic proposals, and classroom practice  (Spain, Argentina, Switzerland, Hungary, Greece)
  • Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies (published by the University of Białystok, Poland)
    • 2019: Linguistics for Language Teaching and Learning, guest edited by Elżbieta Awramiuk and Daniel Karczewski. (Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Portugal)
  • L1 – Educational Studies in Languages and Literature has published several special issues each offering an international perspective on grammar teaching:
    • 2020: USA, Portugal, Francophone Canada, French-speaking Switzerland, Catalonia
    • 2019: five nations: Spain, The Netherlands, Finland, Czechia and Poland
    • 2018: four regions defined by language: English, German, Spanish and French.
  • Walker, Laurence. 2011. 200 Years of Grammar. A history of grammar teaching in Canada, New Zealand and Australia 1800-2000. Bloomington: iUniverse
  • An international collection of information about ‘sentence diagramming’.

Individual countries or areas

“Sentence diagramming” means any visual system for presenting grammatical (especially syntactic) structure, including tables and numbers as well as diagrams. See the background to this data and a list of questions for further contributions.

• The Arab world
• Argentina
• Australia
• Belgium
• Canada (Quebec)
• China
• The Czech Republic
  • Sentence diagramming
• Denmark
  • Sentence diagramming
• Estonia
• Finland  
• France
• Germany
  • Sentence diagramming
• Great Britain (sentence diagramming)
• Hungary (sentence diagramming)
• Iran
• Israel
• Italy
• Mexico
• The Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia  (sentence diagramming)
• Singapore
• Spain
• United States
  • sentence diagramming