[EDLING:2006] Re: A web site about grammar teaching

[Dr. Peter Bettinger]

Dear colleague,

There seems to be something wrong with this web-site. As I am working on 
what I call a paedagogical grammar I would greatly appreciate if you could 
tell me the new address.

With very best wishes

Peter B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Hudson" <dick at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>
To: "edling" <edling at education.leeds.ac.uk>; "edling-L" 
<edling at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 9:02 PM
Subject: [EDLING:898] A web site about grammar teaching


> 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
>
>