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Author:   Terry Locke (University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780415802659

ISBN 10:   0415802652
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   24 March 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Preface 1. Introduction: ""Grammar Wars"" and Beyond, Terry Locke Part I: The ""Grammar Wars"" in context 2. Blowin’ in the wind: English grammar in United States schools, Martha Kolln and Craig Hancock 3. The problematics of prescribing grammatical knowledge: The case in England, Urszula Clark 4. The Grammar Wars in Australia, Frances Christie 5. Knowledge about language in the English classroom: A Scottish perspective, Graeme Trousdale Part II: The effectiveness of grammar teaching: The research record 6. Teaching sentence-level grammar for writing: The evidence so far, Richard Andrews 7. Explicit teaching of grammar: Does it help students to become better writers?, Amos van Gelderen 8. Ways of knowing: Writing with grammar in mind, Debra Myhill Part III: Into the classroom: Integrating knowledge about language with learning 9. ""Language as a system of meaning potential"": The reading and design of verbal texts, Hilary Janks 10. Discovering a metalanguage for all seasons: Bringing literary language in from the cold , Terry Locke 11. Scaffolding grammar instruction for writers and writing, Constance Weaver 12. Primary school children learning grammar: Rethinking the possibilities, Ruth French Section IV: Beyond print: A metalanguage for multimodal texts 13. A grammar for meaning-making, Gunther Kress 14. Schemas for meaning-making and multimodal texts, Anne Cloonan, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope 15. Resourcing multimodal literacy pedagogy: Towards a description of the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction, Len Unsworth 16. Rules of grammar, rules of play: Computer games, literacy, and literature, Andrew Burn List of Contributors"

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Terry Locke is Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of Arts and Language Education in the School of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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