The Teacher's Guide to Grammar

by Deborah Cameron

The Teacher's Guide to Grammar is unique in focusing directly on the aspects of grammar that teachers need to know. Assuming little or no formal linguistic education, this concise and accessible book provides the necessary background knowledge required in the classroom context. There are detailed chapters on the nuts and bolts of words, morphology, sentences, phrases, verbs, and clauses. Other important educational issues concerned in the teaching of English are the grammatical variation that differentiates standard and non-standard English; how grammar varies in relation to the purpose and audience of a text; and the different grammatical characteristics of different languages. Throughout, illustrations are given using examples from the real spoken and written language produced by learners.

Here are the essentials every English and literacy teacher needs to know about grammar in one practical and relevant guide.

Genres: Teaching

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Deborah Cameron, is a feminist linguist, who holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University. She is mainly interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. A large part of her academic research is focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality.Cameron wrote the book The Myth of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?, published in 2007

Reviews

[Taybah · Rating 5 out of 5]

A concise book, explaining a little bit of everything.