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Book Description
The Teacher's Grammar Book, Second Edition introduces the various
grammars that inform writing instruction in our schools, and examines
methods, strategies, and techniques that constitute best classroom
practices for teaching grammar and writing. Designed for students who
are preparing to become English or language arts teachers, as well as
for credentialed teachers who want an easy-to-use guide to questions of
methods, grammar, and teaching, this overview of basic English grammar
includes the following major topics: a brief history of grammar,
teaching grammar, grammar and writing, traditional grammar,
transformational-generative grammar, cognitive grammar, dialects, black
English, and Chicano English.
New in the reorganized and fully updated Second Edition:
*new chapter giving a brief history of grammar and grammar instruction;
*new chapter on best practices--strategies and techniques that actually work;
*expanded chapter on cognitive grammar--a topic not found in other texts of this nature;
*expanded chapter on dialects;
*summary
and evaluation of the minimalist program (Noam Chomsky's most recent
revision of transformational-generative grammar)--a topic unique among
texts of this kind; and
*reduced discussion of transformational grammar.
Table of Contents
Contents: Preface. A Short History of Grammar. Teaching Grammar. Traditional Grammar. Phrase Structure Grammar. Noam Chomsky and Grammar. Cognitive Grammar. Dialects.
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