The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...

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Senior Lecturer in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra I’m going to put it out there - most teachers don’t know enough about how the English language works [aka grammar], and this ...

A teacher in California who identifies as “cringey” is going viral after claiming she does not teach grammar usage and writing skills in an attempt to defeat white supremacy. Marta Shaffer teaches ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...

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Plans for new primary school grammar tests in England will hold a "gun to the head" of teachers, experts say. The National Association for the Teaching of English says a revised focus on spelling, ...