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[Kathleen Peets]

Thank very much, Elaine. I will certainly look into this option.

Kathleen

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Elaine Silliman <ersilliman at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>   Topic: Grammar Reference<http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes/t/5cae3f30f9ce0386>
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>    Kathleen Peets <kpeets at gmail.com> Jun 21 12:27PM -0400 ^<#130b89f34ebc2b74_digest_top>
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>    Hello all,
>
>    Could someone recommend a good, yet simple and not overly theoretical,
>    grammar reference text for RAs?
>
>    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.
>
>    Thanks very much for any ideas.
>
>    Kathleen
>
>    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>kpeets at ryerson.ca
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>    Siva priya Santhanam <sivapriya.slp at gmail.com> Jun 21 12:57PM -0400 ^<#130b89f34ebc2b74_digest_top>
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>    Hi
>
>    *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 ^<#130b89f34ebc2b74_digest_top>
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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.
>
>    Collins (2009). Improve your grammar. Glasgow, UK: Harper Collins
>    Publishers.
>
>    Crystal, D. (2004). Rediscover grammar (3rd ed.). London: Longman.
>
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>
>    Cheers.
>
>    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>ingrid.willenberg at mq.edu.au
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>    The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of
>    others ~
>    Gandhi
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