Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca.This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University linguist Jean Mulder, on why grammar is important. This week, Andrew Leigh and Chris Ryan, two ...

Questions on whether and how to teach grammar arose during the mid-1980s, as communicative language teaching, which emphasized the use of English as a means to communicate, came into fashion. Today, ...

A century of research shows that traditional grammar lessons—those hours spent diagramming sentences and memorizing parts of speech—don’t help and may even hinder students’ efforts to ...

In this document, we outline important recommendations for you to keep in mind as you teach grammar in your writing assignments. Principles for Teaching Grammar Rhetorically. Below are a few ...

Most language learners dread grammar. Tenses, conditionals, participles—it’s a mental minefield. But Anfisa spices things up ...

Colons are one of the most misunderstood punctuation marks. Many people think they are only used to introduce lists, but they can be used for much more. For example, colons ...