Teaching Grammar: A guide for the National Curriculum
by Richard Hudson (1992, Blackwell)
A book for school teachers about grammar – what it is, why it should be taught at school, and some suggestions for things to teach. Plus a little `encyclopedia of grammar’. Now out of print, but I’ve scanned the parts that are highlighted and linked below. If you’d like to see more, tell me what and I’ll scan it.
Contents
- Editor’s foreword
- Preface i
- Notation 2
Part I Background
1 English teaching
- The state of grammar in schools 3
- The National Curriculum for English 5
- Discovery-learning and the National Curriculum 8
2 What grammarians do
- Who are the grammarians? 15
- What is grammar? 2I
- Some basic principles 28
- Some achievements of grammarians 34
3 What is Standard English?
- Standard English as a dialect 39
- How to teach the standard dialect 43
- The distinctive characteristics of the standard dialect 48
- Standard English as a collection of registers 49
- Conclusion 55
Part II Some grammar lessons
- Level1: Inflections and dictionary-words 61
- Level2: Ambiguity 73
- Level3: Tense 88
- Level4: Phrases and the apostrophe 104
- Level5: Vocabulary and style 116
- Level6: Subjects, verbs and dialects 125
- Level7: Purposes and indirectness 136
- Level8: Presuppositions 147
- Level9: Passives 155
- Level10: End-weight and readability167
Part III Aims and means
5 Some non-standard dialect features 189
6 Useful books 197
Part IV An encyclopedia of grammar 205
Part V Appendix: Grammar in the National Curriculum
References 280
Index 284