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Gebhard, Meg; Graham, Holly – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to analyze how middle schoolers developed a critical awareness of language while participating in a curricular unit informed by systemic functional linguistics (SFL). This unit was developed to understanding and taking action to protect a local bat population in the context of school reforms shaping teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Middle School Students, Grade 7
Abdel Latif, Muhammad M. Mahmoud – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2012
Since any standards-based reform is made to bring about an improvement in students' learning, it requires changes in teachers' practices as well. This study examined how a standards-based communicative curricular reform in general secondary school English in Egypt has changed teachers' classroom practices, and the factors influencing such…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Language Skills
Gordon, Elizabeth – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
This paper describes two attempts to introduce grammar teaching into New Zealand schools. The first case study describes the work of the 6th and 7th form English Syllabus Committee in the 1980s which proposed the uniquely New Zealand solution of using examples from Maori as well as from English to demonstrate grammatical points. The response to…
Descriptors: Grammar, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Malayo Polynesian Languages
Andrews, Richard – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
Following the publication of an article summarising two systematic reviews on whether the teaching of grammar is effective in improving 5-16 year olds' writing (Andrews et al, 2006), the present article reflects on the relationship between knowledge about language and knowledge about grammar. It argues that there is no evidence for the assumption…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Grammar, Educational Change, Elementary School Students
van Gelderen, Amos – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
The teaching of grammar is discussed from an instrumental point of view: what beneficial effects does such teaching have for students' language abilities (especially writing)? Two ways of approaching grammar teaching are confronted with each other: the learning of explicit rules and meta-linguistic knowledge about language on one hand and learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Linguistics, Writing Ability
Griffith, Jason J.; Amevuvor, Jocelyn – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to argue for the curricular inclusion of youth-generated young adult literature (YAL) alongside canonical literature and adult-generated YAL. The authors support this argument with the results of a qualitative analysis of youth memoir published in "The Best Teen Writing." They strive to inform the debate between…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Secondary School Students, Autobiographies, Literary Genres
Trousdale, Graeme – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
This article is concerned with knowledge about language in the English classroom in Scotland, with a particular emphasis on national educational policy. The article provides a discussion of the main national guidelines on English Language teaching in the primary and early secondary years, as well as some observations on the place of knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metalinguistics, English, Educational Policy