A bibliography supporting grammar teaching
The following works all discuss various issues in grammar teaching, but all agree that it should happen, in contrast with those that argue against the teaching of grammar.
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| Year | Author | Title | Publication Title | Volume | Publisher | Editor | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Barton, Geoff | Grammar Without Shame. | Use of English | 48 | 107-118 | ||
| 1966 | Bateman, Donald R.; Zidonis, Frank J. | The effect of a study of transformational grammar on the writing of ninth and tenth graders | no. 6. | National Council of Teachers of English | |||
| 2002 | Bryant, Peter; Devine, M; Ledward, A; Nunes, Terezinha | Spelling with Apostrophes and Understanding Possession. | British Journal of Educational Psychology | 67 | 91-110 | ||
| 2004 | Bryant, Peter; Nunes, Terezinha; Bindman, M | The Relations Between Children's Linguistic Awareness and Spelling: The Case of the Apostrophe. | Reading and Writing | 12 | 253-276 | ||
| 2000 | Bryant, Peter; Nunes, Terezinha; Snaith, R. | Orthography - Children learn an untaught rule of spelling | Nature | 403 | 157-158 | ||
| 1958 | Carroll, John | Psycholinguistics and the Teaching of English Composition. | Applied English Linguistics | Allen, H.B. | 319-326 | ||
| 2002 | Chliounaki, K.; Bryant, Peter | Construction and learning to spell | Cognitive Development | 17 | 1489-1499 | ||
| 1985 | Chomsky, Carol; Honda, Maya; Oneil, Wayne; Unger, Chris | Doing science: constructing scientific theories as an introduction to scientific method (scientific theory and methodology project technical report). | ETC, Harvard Graduate School of Education | ||||
| 2005 | Deacon, S.H.; Bryant, Peter | What young children do and do not know about the spelling of inflections and derivations | Developmental Science | 8 | 583-594 | ||
| 2005 | Deacon, S.H.; Bryant, Peter | The strength of children's knowledge of the role of root morphemes in the spelling of derived words | Journal of Child Language | 32 | 375-389 | ||
| 1997 | DeBeaugrande, R. | Theory and practice in applied linguistics: Disconnection, conflict, or dialectic? | Applied Linguistics | 18 | 279-313 | ||
| 2008 | Ellis, Nick | Implicit and explicit knowledge about language | Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd Edition, Volume 6: Knowledge about Language | Springer | Cenoz, Jasone; Hornberger, Nancy | January 1, 2013 | |
| 2008 | Ellis, R. | Explicit form-focused instruction and second language acquisition. | The Handbook of Educational Linguistics | Blackwell | Spolsky, Bernard; Hult, Francis | 437-455 | |
| 2000 | Fogel, H; Ehri, L | Teaching elementary students who speak black English vernacular to write in Standard English: effects of dialect transformation practice | Contemporary Educational Psychology | 25 | 212-235 | ||
| 1967 | Gale, Irma | An Experimental Study of Two Fifth-Grade Language-Arts Programs, an Analysis of the Writing of Children Taught Linguistic Grammars Compared to Those Taught Traditional Grammar. | Ann Arbor | ||||
| 2011 | Ginsberg, Daniel; Honda, Maya; O'Neil, Wayne | Looking Beyond English: Linguistic Inquiry for English Language Learners | Language and Linguistics Compass 5/5 (2011): 249-264, | 5 | 249-264 | ||
| 1997 | Grauberg, Walter | The Elements of Foreign Language Teaching | Multilingual Matters | ||||
| 2009 | Hancock, Craig | How linguistics can inform the teaching of writing | The Sage Handbook of Writing | Sage | Beard, Roger; Myhill, Debra; Riley, Jeni; Nystrand, Martin | 194-207 | |
| 1991 | Heap, Brian | Language Awareness in the Classroom | Evaluating the Effects of an LA Course. | Longman | James, Carl; Garrett, Peter | 247-253 | |
| 2008 | Hefty, Marye; Ortiz, Sallie; Nelson, Sara | Sentence Diagramming: A Step-by-Step Approach to Learning Grammar Through Diagramming | Longman | ||||
| 1994 | Herriman, M. | Literacy and metalinguistic awareness. | Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. | Pergamon | Asher, Ronald | 2243-2246 | |
| 1994 | Honda, Maya | Linguistic inquiry in the science classroom: "It Is Science, but It's Not Like a Science Problem in a Book" | MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics | 6 | 1-262 | ||
| 2004 | Honda, Maya; O'Neil, Wayne; Pippin, David | Linguistics in the English classroom: the view from room 202 | |||||
| 2010 | Honda, Maya; O'Neil, Wayne; Pippin, David | On promoting linguistics literacy: bringing language science to the English classroom. | Linguistics at School | Cambridge University Press | Denham, Kristin; Lobeck, Anne | 175-188 | |
| 2005 | Hurry, Jane; Nunes, Terezinha; Bryant, Peter; Pretzlik, Ursula; Parker, Mary; Curno, Tamsin; Midgely, Lucinda | Transforming research on morphology into teacher practice | Research Papers in Education | 20 | 187-206 | ||
| 2013 | Jones, Susan; Myhill, Debra; Bailey, Trevor | Grammar for Writing? An investigation into the effect of Contextualised Grammar Teaching on Student Writing | Reading and Writing | 26 | 1241-1263 | ||
| 2003 | Kemp, N.; Bryant, Peter | Do beez buzz? Rule-based and frequency-based knowledge in learning to spell plural -s | Child Development | 74 | 63-74 | ||
| 1996 | Klotz, Peter | Grammatische Wege Zur Textgestaltungskompetenz. | Niemeyer | ||||
| 1955 | Laurinen, Inkeri | The Development of sentence sense in the light of the results attained in the teaching of writing in Finnish primary schools. | Helsinki University | ||||
| 2009 | Locke, Terry | Grammar and writing - the international debate | The Sage Handbook of Writing Development | Sage | Beard, Roger; Myhill, Debra; Riley, Jeni; Nystrand, Martin | 182-193 | |
| 1997 | Mason, Mary; Mason, Robert | Breakthrough to Learning. Linguistics in the Service of Mainstream Education. | University of Central England Faculty of Education Papers: Issues in Education Series, No. 2. | ||||
| 1992 | Mason, Mary; Mason, Robert; Quayle, Tony | Illuminating English: How Explicit Language Teaching Improved Public Examination Results in a Comprehensive School. | Educational Studies | 18 | 341-353 | ||
| 1995 | Matzen, Richard | The Role of Traditional Grammar Instruction in the Teaching of Writing: a Selected, Annotated Bibliography. | |||||
| 1963 | Meckel, H.C. | Research on teaching composition and literature. | Handbook of Research on Teaching | Rand McNally | Gage, N.L. | 966-1006 | |
| 1969 | Mellon, John | Transformational Sentence Combining. | National Council of Teachers of English | ||||
| 2005 | Myhill, Debra | Writing and grammar | |||||
| 2005 | Myhill, Debra | Ways of Knowing: Writing with Grammar in Mind | English Teaching: Practice and Critique | 4 | 77-96 | ||
| 2011 | Myhill, Debra | Grammar for designers: how grammar supports the development of writing | Applied Linguistics and Primary School Teaching | Cambridge University Press | Ellis, Sue; McCartney, Elspeth | 81-92 | |
| 2014 | Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan | Language as putty: framing a relationship between grammar and writing | International Perspectives on Teaching English in a Globalised World | Routledge | Goodwin, A; Reid, L; Durrant, C | 144-155 | |
| 2012 | Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan; Lines, Helen; Watson, Annabel | Re-Thinking Grammar: the Impact of Embedded Grammar Teaching on Students' Writing and Students' Metalinguistic Understanding | Research Papers in Education | 27 | 139-166 | ||
| 2013 | Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan; Watson, Annabel | Grammar Matters: How Teachers' Grammatical Subject Knowledge Impacts on the Teaching of Writing | Teaching and Teacher Education | 36 | 77-91 | ||
| 2013 | Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan; Watson, Annabel; Lines, Helen | Playful Explicitness with Grammar: A Pedagogy for Writing | Literacy | 47 | 103-111 | ||
| 2011 | Myhill, Debra; Lines, Helen; Watson, Annabel | Making meaning with grammar: a repertoire of possibilities | mETAphor | 2 | October 1, 2019 | ||
| 2014 | Myhill, Debra; Watson, Annabel | The Role of Grammar in the Writing Curriculum: A Review | Child Language Teaching and Therapy | 30 | 41-62 | ||
| 2006 | Nunes, Terezinha; Bryant, Peter | Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes | Routledge | ||||
| 2011 | Nunes, Terezinha; Bryant, Peter | Why we need to know about more than phonics to teach English literacy | Applied Linguistics and Primary School Teaching | Cambridge University Press | Ellis, Sue; McCartney, Elspeth | 140-153 | |
| 1997 | Nunes, Terezinha; Bryant, Peter; Bindman, M. | Learning to spell regular and irregular verbs | Reading and Writing | 9 | 427-449 | ||
| 1997 | Nunes, Terezinha; Bryant, Peter; Bindman, M | Morphological spelling strategies: Developmental stages and processes | Developmental Psychology | 33 | 637-649 | ||
| 2003 | Nunes, Terezinha; Bryant, Peter; Olsson, J. | Learning morphological and phonological spelling rules: An intervention study | Scientific Studies of Reading | 7 | 289-307 | ||
| 2007 | O'Neil, Wayne | Project English: Lessons From Curriculum Reform Past | Language and Linguistics Compass | 1 | 612-623 | ||
| 2007 | Robinson, Peter | Practice in second language learning: Perspectives from applied linguistics and cognitive psychology. | Aptitudes, abilities, contexts and practice | Cambridge University Press | DeKeyser, R.M | 256-286 | |
| 2010 | Spada, N; Tomita, Y | Spada, N. & Y. Tomita. 2010. Interactions between type of instruction and type of language feature: a meta-analysis. | Language Learning | 60 | January 1, 1946 | ||
| 1969 | Thouless, Robert | Map of Educational Research. | National Foundation for Educational Research | ||||
| 1994 | Tomlinson, D | Errors in the Research Into the Effectiveness of Grammar Teaching | English in Education | 28 | February 1, 2026 | ||
| 1979 | Tordoir, Agatha; Wesdorp, Hildo | Het Grammatica-Onderwijs in Nederland: Een Researchoversicht Betreffende de Effecten Van Grammatica-Onderwijs en Een Verslag Van Een Onderzoek Naar de Praktijk Van Dit Onderwijs in Nederland. | Staatsuitgeverij | ||||
| 1984 | Walmsley, John | The Uselessness of Formal Grammar? (Working Papers Volume 2) | Committee for Linguistics in Education | ||||
| 2012 | Walter, Catherine | Time to stop avoiding grammar rules | Guardian Weekly | September 18, 2012 | |||
| 1996 | Weaver, Constance | Teaching Grammar in Context. | Heinemann | ||||
| 1995 | Williams, Geoffrey | Learning Systemic Functional Grammar in Primary Schools. | Macquarie University Style Council | ||||
| 2015 | Brimo, Danielle; Apel, Kenn; Fountain, Treeva | Examining the contributions of syntactic awareness and syntactic knowledge to reading comprehension | Journal of Research in Reading | n/a-n/a | |||
| 2015 | Teaching and Learning English Grammar. Research Findings and Future Directions | Routledge | Christison, MaryAnn; Christian, Donna; Duff, Patricia; Spada, Nina | ||||
| 2008 | Léon, Renée | Enseigner la grammaire et le vocabulaire a l'école. Pourquoi? Comment? | Hachette | ||||
| 2016 | Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan; Watson, Annabel; Lines, Helen | Essential Primary Grammar | Open University Press | ||||
| 2008 | Belard, Annick; Bompard, Chantal; Canat, Claudie; Demougin, Francoise; Martin, Anne | Enseigner la grammaire a l'école primaire. | Groupe départemental Maitrise de la langue | ||||
| 1987 | Hudson, Tate | Great, no, realistic expectations: grammar and cognitive levels. | English Journal | 76 | 82-3 | ||
| 1969 | Kennedy, L D; Larson, A D | The influence of structural and traditional grammatical instruction upon language perception and writing ability. | Illinois School Research | 5 | 31-36 | ||
| 2018 | van Rijt, Jimmy; de Swart, Peter; Coppen, Peter-Arno | Linguistic concepts in L1 grammar education: a systematic literature review | Research Papers in Education | ||||
| 2018 | Aarts, Bas; Cushing, Ian; Hudson, Richard | How to Teach Grammar | Oxford University Press | ||||
| 2017 | Liviero, Sara | Grammar teaching in secondary school foreign language learning in England: teachers’ reported beliefs and observed practices | The Language Learning Journal | 45 | 26-50 | ||
| 2008 | Macaro, Ernesto | The decline in language learning in England: getting the facts right and getting real. | Language Learning Journal | 36 | 101-108 | ||
| 1998 | Anon | The Grammar Papers. Perspectives on the teaching of grammar in the national curriculum. | QCA (The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority) | ||||
| 1978 | Fraser, Ian; Hodson, Lynda | Twenty-one kicks at the grammar horse: Close-up: grammar and Composition. | English journal | 67 | 49-54 | ||
| 1995 | Mccleary, Bill | Grammar making a comeback in composition teaching | Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers | 8 | April 1, 2019 | ||
| 2007 | Fearn, Leif; Farnan, Nancy | When is a verb? Using functional grammar to teach writing | Journal of Basic Writing | 26 | 63-87 | ||
| 2018 | Fontich, Xavier; García-Folgado, María-José | Grammar instruction in the Hispanic area: The case of Spain with attention to empirical studies on metalinguistic activity | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature | 18 | January 1, 1939 | ||
| 2018 | Myhill, Debra | Grammar as a meaning-making resource for language development | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature | 18 | January 1, 2021 | ||
| 2018 | Funke, Reinold | Working on grammar at school: Empirical research from German-speaking regions | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature | 18 | January 1, 1939 | ||
| 2018 | Arsenau, R; Foucambert, D; Lefrançois, P | Improving the mastery of relative clause in French L1 secondary classes: the effects of an intervention based on verbal interactions on written syntactic structures | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature | 18 | January 1, 2029 | ||
| 1903 | Rice, J. M | English: The Need for a Basis in Education," | Forum | 269-293, 440-458 | |||
| 1932 | Catherwood, Catherine | A Study of the Relationship Between a Knowledge of Rules and Ability to Correct Grammatical Errors and between identification of Sentences and Knowledge of Subject and Predicate. | University of Minnesota | ||||
| 1933 | Pressey, Sidney | Psychology and the New Education | |||||
| 1901 | Barbour, Florus | The Teaching of English Grammar. History and methods | Ginn | ||||
| 1829 | Kirkham, Samuel | English grammar in familiar lectures accompanied by a compendium; embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises designed for the use of schools and private learners. (36th edition) | Marshall and Dean | ||||
| 1994 | Williams, Geoffrey | Using systemic grammar in teaching young learners : an introduction | Macmillan Education Australia | ||||
| 2005 | Williams, Geoffrey | Grammatics in school. In R. Hasan, C. M. I. M. Matthiessen and J. J. Webster (eds): 281–310 | Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective Vol 1 | Equinox | Hasan, Ruqaiya; Matthiessen, Christian; Webster, Jonathan | 281-310 | |
| 2013 | Myhill, Debra; Jones, Susan; Lines, Helen | The impact of embedded grammar on weak writers in Year 8. | |||||
| 1984 | Davis, Frederica | In Defense of Grammar | English Education | 16 | 151-164 | ||
| 1990 | Dirven, René | Pedagogical grammar [State of the Art]. . 23.31-18. | Language Teaching | 23 | January 1, 2018 | ||
| 1927 | Fries, Charles | The rules of the common school grammars. PMLA. . | PMLA | 42 | 221-237 | ||
| 2018 | Barton, Geoff; Shackleton, Jo | Grammar Survival for Secondary Teachers. A Practical Toolkit, 3rd Edition | Routledge | ||||
| 2010 | Bowers, P; Kirby, J; Deacon, S.H. | The effects of morphological instruction on literacy skills: A systematic review of the literature. | Review of Educational Research | 80 | 144-179 | ||
| 2007 | Spada, Nina | Communicative language teaching: current status and future prospects | International Handbook of English Language Teaching, volume 15 | Springer | Cummins, Jim; Davison, C | 271-288 | |
| 2003 | Allford, D | 'Grasping the nettle’: aspects of grammar in the mother tongue and foreign languages. | The Language Learning Journal | 27 | 24-32 | ||
| 2017 | Coppen, Peter-Arno | Bridging the gap between linguistic theory and L1 grammar education – experts’ views on essential linguistic concepts AU - van Rijt, Jimmy | Language Awareness | 26 | 360-380 | ||
| 2019 | Rättyä, Kaisu; Awramiuk, Elżbieta; Fontich, Xavier | Introduction to EduLing Special Issue on grammar education. | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature | ||||
| 2008 | Rogers, Leslie; Graham, Steve | A meta-analysis of single subject design writing intervention research. | Journal of Educational Psychology | 100 | 879-906 | ||
| 2019 | Adger, David; van Urk, Coppe | Three conlang projects at three educational levels | |||||
| 2019 | Nupponen, A-M; Jeskanen, S; Rättyä, Kaisu | Finnish student language teachers reflecting on linguistic concepts related to sentence structures: Students recognising linguistic concepts in L1 and L2 textbooks. Contribution to a special issue What is Grammar in L1 Education Today? | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature | 19 | Rättyä, Kaisu; Awramiuk, Elżbieta; Fontich, Xavier | January 1, 2025 | |
| 2019 | Rijt, J van; Wijnands, A; Coppen, P-A | Dutch teachers' beliefs on linguistic concepts and reflective judgement in grammar teaching. Contribution to a special issue What is Grammar in L1 Education Today? | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature | 19 | Rättyä, Kaisu; Awramiuk, Elżbieta; Fontich, Xavier | January 1, 2028 | |
| 2019 | Rättyä, Kaisu; Awramiuk, Elżbieta; Fontich, Xavier | What is grammar in L1 education today? Introduction to EduLing special issue What is Grammar in L1 Education Today. | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature | 19 | Rättyä, Kaisu; Awramiuk, Elżbieta; Fontich, Xavier | August 1, 2019 | |
| 2019 | Štěpáník, S. | Pupil preconception as a source of solutions to lingering problems of grammar teaching? | L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature | Special Issue What is Grammar in L1 Education Today? | Rättyä, Kaisu; Awramiuk, Elżbieta; Fontich, Xavier | January 1, 2024 | |
| 2019 | Awramiuk, Elżbieta; Szymańska, M | Grammar education at the turn of the millennium. The case of Poland. Contribution to a special issue What is Grammar in L1 Education Today? | L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature | 19 | Rättyä, Kaisu; Awramiuk, Elżbieta; Fontich, Xavier | January 1, 1930 | |
| 1930 | Brereton, Cloudesley | Modern Language Teaching in Day and Evening Schools with Special Reference to London. | London University Press | ||||
| 2014 | Apel, Kenn; werfel, K | Using morphological awareness instruction to improve written language skills. | Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools | 45 | 251-260 | ||
| 2010 | Bowers, P; Kirby, J; Deacon, S.H. | The effects of morphological instruction on literacy skills: A systematic review of the literature. | Review of Educational Research | 80 | 144-179 | ||
| 2013 | Goodwin, A; Ahn, S | A meta-analysis of morphological interventions in English: Effects on literacy outcomes for school-age children. | Scientific Studies of Reading | 17 | 257-285 | ||
| 2014 | Graham, Steve; Santangelo, Tanya | Does spelling instruction make students better spellers, readers, and writers? A meta-analytic review. | Reading and Writing | 27 | 1703-1743 | ||
| 2019 | Fontich, Xavier | Should we teach first language grammar in compulsory schooling at all? Some reflections from the Spanish perspective | Crossroads. A journal of English studies | 24 | 26-44 | ||
| 2019 | da Silva, Cristina; Pereira, Iris; Sebastião, Isabel | Portuguese teachers’ perceptions of grammar teaching | Crossroads. A journal of English studies | 24 | 64-81 | ||
| 2018 | Macken-Horarik, M; Love, K; Horarik, S | Rethinking grammar in language arts: Insights from an Australian survey of teachers’ subject knowledge | Research in the Teaching of English | 52 | 288-316 | ||
| 2011 | Macken-Horarik, Mary; Love, Kristina; Unsworth, Len | A grammatics ‘good enough’ for school English in the 21st century: Four challenges in realising the potential | Australian Journal of Language and Literacy | 34 | September 1, 2023 | ||
| 2019 | Wallis, Sean; Cushing, Ian; Aarts, Bas | Exploiting parsed corpora in grammar teaching | Linguistic Issues in Language Technology | 18 | |||
| 2019 | van Rijt, Jimmy; de Swart, Peter; Wijnands, Astrid; Coppen, Peter-Arno | When students tackle grammatical problems: Exploring linguistic reasoning with linguistic metaconcepts in L1 grammar education. | Linguistics and Education | 52 | 78-88 |
