Selling grammar: I will be your preacher teacher

By Sue Norton. Here in my institute of higher education in Dublin, I teach lessons in what I call Applied Grammar. I have been teaching this ‘Applied Grammar’ on an assortment of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for 15 years...
A careful analysis of university readiness published by the Center for American Progress in 2009 has been widely cited and, with reference to the ACT National Curriculum Survey of 2007, it identifies the discrepancy between the relatively low value that high school teachers have tended to place on grammar and writing skills compared with the higher value placed on these skills by college and university professors. Read more...