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 ...

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. We’re speaking formal English.

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.

The role of grammar instruction in the development of effective writing has long been recognised as a cornerstone of educational practice. Recent pedagogical models emphasise the integration of ...

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Many students are returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was overhauled to include the “explicit teaching of grammar, sentence ...

We all remember what it was like back in school, sitting on the edge of the seat, waiting for the teacher to hand out"the test.” Our palms were sweaty and our mind raced with facts and figures we ...

The teaching of grammar in primary schools in England (a key feature of England's national curriculum) does not appear to help children's narrative writing, although it may help them generate ...

A little over a year ago, Jeni Peake noticed her students at The Cambridge School in Lisbon, Portugal, seemed tired of the standard grammar exercises. And it didn't seem to be a consequence of ...