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[Elaine Silliman]

Kathleen - I second the Justice & Ezell book. I have used it extensively with my MS students in speech-language pathology. It is very accessible & can be applied in a variety of ways. 

Elaine Silliman

Professor Emeritus
Communication Sciences & Disorders
University of South Florida

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On Jun 22, 2011, at 9:29 AM, info-childes+noreply at googlegroups.com wrote:

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> Grammar Reference [3 Updates]
>  Topic: Grammar Reference
> Kathleen Peets <kpeets at gmail.com> Jun 21 12:27PM -0400 ^
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> Hello all,
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> Could someone recommend a good, yet simple and not overly theoretical,
> grammar reference text for RAs?
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> The challenge is that the RAs do not have linguistics courses in their
> academic program (education), and I want them to be able to parse narrative
> and expository texts by children, so they need to know what a clause is, and
> somehow my own definitions and examples are not enough...Of course they also
> need to have a general overview of English grammar - enough for accurate
> transcription.
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> Thanks very much for any ideas.
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> Kathleen
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> Dr. Kathleen Peets
> Assistant Professor
> Early Childhood Education
> Ryerson University
> 350 Victoria Street
> Room KHS 363-L
> Toronto, Ontario
> M5B 2K3
> (416) 979-5000 ext. 7646
> kpeets at ryerson.ca
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> Siva priya Santhanam <sivapriya.slp at gmail.com> Jun 21 12:57PM -0400 ^
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> Hi
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> *The syntax handbook*: everything you learned about *syntax*-- but forgot by
> Justic and Ezell might help.
> Thanks,
> S
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> Ingrid Willenberg <ingridwillenberg at gmail.com> Jun 22 09:16AM +1000 ^
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> I found that many of my speech pathology students, who are meant to have
> undergraduate linguistics courses, still have very tenuous knowledge of
> grammar. I have 2 suggested references, which I consider very
> 'user-friendly'. The Collins book is the simpler of the two, whereas David
> Crystal's book is more complex and technical.
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> Collins (2009). Improve your grammar. Glasgow, UK: Harper Collins
> Publishers.
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> Crystal, D. (2004). Rediscover grammar (3rd ed.). London: Longman.
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> Cheers.
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> Ingrid
> Ingrid. A. Willenberg (Ed.D)
> Master of Speech Language Pathology Program
> Department of Linguistics
> Macquarie University
> North Ryde
> 2109
> Australia
> Email: ingrid.willenberg at mq.edu.au
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