<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";" lang="EN-AU">Crystal, D. (2004).
Rediscover grammar (3<sup>rd</sup> ed.). London: Longman. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";" lang="EN-AU"></span></p>
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<br>Cheers.<br><br>Ingrid<br><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Ingrid. A. Willenberg (Ed.D)</span><br>Master of Speech Language Pathology Program<br>Department of Linguistics<br>Macquarie University<br>North Ryde<br>
2109<br>Australia<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ingrid.willenberg@mq.edu.au">ingrid.willenberg@mq.edu.au</a><br><br><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others ~ Gandhi</span><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Kathleen Peets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kpeets@gmail.com">kpeets@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello all,<br><br>Could someone recommend a good, yet simple and not overly theoretical, grammar reference text for RAs? <br><br>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. <br>
<br>Thanks very much for any ideas.<br><br>Kathleen<br><br>Dr. Kathleen Peets<br>Assistant Professor<br>Early Childhood Education<br>Ryerson University <br>350 Victoria Street<br>Room KHS 363-L<br>Toronto, Ontario<br>M5B 2K3<br>
<a href="tel:%28416%29%20979-5000%20ext.%207646" value="+14169795000" target="_blank">(416) 979-5000 ext. 7646</a><br><a href="mailto:kpeets@ryerson.ca" target="_blank">kpeets@ryerson.ca</a><br><font color="#888888">
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