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The Teacher’s Grammar Book Second Edition ...

The Teacher’s Grammar Book Second Edition James D. Williams Soka University LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS 2005 Mahwah, ...

Copyright © 2005 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, b ...

Contents Preface ix ...

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1 A Short History of Grammar Acknowledgments xiii Agreeing on a Definition Greek Beginnings Grammar in Rome Grammar in the Midd ...

Preface The Teacher’s Grammar Bookis designed for students who are preparing to be- come English or language arts teachers, as w ...

actually fun.The Teacher’s Grammar Bookaims to take readers on a similar voyage of discovery. What’s New in the Second Edition T ...

grammar has held in Western education since the days of Plato and Aristotle so that they can better understand and appreciate wh ...

job interview. In addition, chapter 3 examines traditional grammar’s prescrip- tive approach to language study and explores the ...

model of language processing that is more congruent with mental operations and that can provide important insights into teaching ...

1 A Short History of Grammar Agreeing on a Definition Grammaris a term used to mean many different things. When teachers and ad- ...

For this reason, I have chosen a definition ofgrammarthat is concise but that is sufficiently broad to include a wide range of l ...

attending private schools at the age of 6 and continued at least until the age of The government did not require attendance, bu ...

them, it was natural that they turned their attention to language and began ask- ing questions about its structure. In addition, ...

topics and arguments. When students in a literature class interpret a novel, for example, they must practice invention not only ...

Therefore, grammar also held a central place in Roman schools. Dykema (1961) noted that Romans, like the Greeks, believed that k ...

Grammar in the Middle Ages Roman education concentrated on what is known asthe seven artsof the triv- ium (grammar, logic, and r ...

course of study continued to be divided into the elementary trivium and the more advanced quadrivium; the trivium, however, was ...