[EDLING:898] A web site about grammar teaching

[Richard Hudson]

Dear Colleague,
You may be interested in a new web-site about grammar - what it is, why 
it should be taught and how it should be taught - at
    www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/kal/top.htm.
I wrote it at the invitation of the team that runs the secondary schools 
in England, so it's focussed on the official policy as expressed in 
official documents. The immediate trigger for commissioning the work was 
a barrage of ill-informed criticism stimulated by a research review in 
late 2004 that claimed to have found that grammar teaching never 
benefits writing skills, so the main focus of the web site is on this 
question. Comments welcome, of course.

    With best wishes,  Dick Hudson

-- 
Richard Hudson, FBA,
Emeritus Professor of Linguistics,
University College London
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/home.htm