During this period, teaching English and teaching grammar were virtually synonymous. Questions on whether and how to teach grammar arose during the mid-1980s, as communicative language teaching, which ...

Even the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has a position statement on not teaching grammar in isolation. Let’s be honest, it is impossible to try to shove every grammar skill into ...

What the teacher needs is a new approach, according to two local educators promoting an alternative way of teaching grammar . “I would say, ‘We’re in school right now.

In 1985, the National Council of Teachers of English, an organization that certainly did not foresee a future of blogs, social media, hot takes and hastily dashed-off tweets, emails and texts ...

The manual, produced by the Board of Studies Teaching and Educational Standards NSW, seeks to better equip the state's 63,000-odd teachers with the skills required to effectively teach English ...

Imagine inflicting the following stunt on a class of eight-year-olds. As part of their English education, you want them to expand their vocabulary, so you prohibit the word "got". At that age ...