<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Elaine Silliman</div><div><br></div><div>Professor Emeritus</div><div>Communication Sciences & Disorders</div><div>University of South Florida<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jun 22, 2011, at 9:29 AM, <a href="mailto:info-childes+noreply@googlegroups.com">info-childes+noreply@googlegroups.com</a> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: #e8eef7; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 140%; border-top: 1px solid #7799dd; padding: 2px">
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<span style="color: ; font-weight: bold">Kathleen Peets <<a href="mailto:kpeets@gmail.com">kpeets@gmail.com</a>></span> Jun 21 12:27PM -0400
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Hello all,<br>
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Could someone recommend a good, yet simple and not overly theoretical,<br>
grammar reference text for RAs?<br>
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The challenge is that the RAs do not have linguistics courses in their<br>
academic program (education), and I want them to be able to parse narrative<br>
and expository texts by children, so they need to know what a clause is, and<br>
somehow my own definitions and examples are not enough...Of course they also<br>
need to have a general overview of English grammar - enough for accurate<br>
transcription.<br>
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Thanks very much for any ideas.<br>
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Kathleen<br>
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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>
(416) 979-5000 ext. 7646<br>
<a href="mailto:kpeets@ryerson.ca"><a href="mailto:kpeets@ryerson.ca">kpeets@ryerson.ca</a></a><br>
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<span style="color: ; font-weight: bold">Siva priya Santhanam <<a href="mailto:sivapriya.slp@gmail.com">sivapriya.slp@gmail.com</a>></span> Jun 21 12:57PM -0400
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Hi<br>
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*The syntax handbook*: everything you learned about *syntax*-- but forgot by<br>
Justic and Ezell might help.<br>
Thanks,<br>
S<br>
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<span style="color: ; font-weight: bold">Ingrid Willenberg <<a href="mailto:ingridwillenberg@gmail.com">ingridwillenberg@gmail.com</a>></span> Jun 22 09:16AM +1000
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I found that many of my speech pathology students, who are meant to have<br>
undergraduate linguistics courses, still have very tenuous knowledge of<br>
grammar. I have 2 suggested references, which I consider very<br>
'user-friendly'. The Collins book is the simpler of the two, whereas David<br>
Crystal's book is more complex and technical.<br>
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Collins (2009). Improve your grammar. Glasgow, UK: Harper Collins<br>
Publishers.<br>
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Crystal, D. (2004). Rediscover grammar (3rd ed.). London: Longman.<br>
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Cheers.<br>
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Ingrid<br>
Ingrid. A. Willenberg (Ed.D)<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"><a href="mailto:ingrid.willenberg@mq.edu.au">ingrid.willenberg@mq.edu.au</a></a><br>
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