Oxford University Press
Oxford Teaching Guides: How To Teach Grammar
Ian Cushing, Richard Hudson, Bas Aarts, Nick Rowles, Andrew Crampton, Catherine Owen, Carol Tear, Dan McGowan, Emma Poole, Philip Leftwich, James Penny, Rose Griffiths, Jenni Back, Sue Gifford
Oxford Teaching Guides: How To Teach Grammar
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How To Teach Grammar offers accessible and authoritative advice and guidance on teaching grammar. It covers both subject knowledge and classroom practice, providing practical recommendations to help English teachers improve their own depth of understanding of grammar, and their confidence and ability to deliver successful grammar teaching.

Language
English
ISBN
9780198421528
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Subject knowledge
1 Words
1.1 The three tools of grammar
1.2 The scope of grammar
1.3 Word classes
1.4 Inflectional morphology
1.5 Syntax
1.6 Derivational morphology
1.7 Growing words at school
2 Word classes and phrases
2.1 Word classes
2.2 Nouns and noun phrases
2.3 Pronouns
2.4 Determiners
2.5 Adjectives and adjective phrases
2.6 Prepositions and preposition phrases
2.7 Verbs
2.8 Adverbs and adverb phrases
2.9 Coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions
3 Clauses
3.1 What is a clause?
3.2 Main and subordinate clauses
3.3 Clause types
3.4 Finite and nonfinite clauses
4 Grammatical functions
4.1 Grammatical form
4.2 Grammatical functions
4.3 Subject
4.4 Direct Object
4.5 Indirect Object
4.6 Adverbial
4.7 Complement
4.8 Modifier
4.9 Visualising the structure of sentences
4.10 A closer look at form and function in English grammar
5 Grammar and meaning
5.1 From grammar to meaning
5.2 Sense and referent
5.3 Denotation and connotation
5.4 Anaphora
5.5 Deixis
5.6 Lexical meaning
5.7 Flexible meaning
5.8 Meaning created by derivational morphology
5.9 Meaning created by inflectional morphology
5.10 Meaning created by syntax
5.11 Modality
5.12 Meaning and communication
Part 2: Classroom practice
6 Building
6.1 Creating worlds from words
6.2 The building blocks of fictional worlds
6.3 Fictional worlds in advertising
7 Foregrounding
7.1 Finding patterns
7.2 Foregrounding in poetry
7.3 Deviation and parallelism
7.4 Activity: talking about grammar
7.5 Activity: noticing patterns
8 Mapping
8.1 Meaning and mapping in the mind
8.2 Orientating a scene
8.3 Mapping a scene
8.4 In time, out of time, and behind time
8.5 Prepositions in political discourse
8.6 Playing with time and place
9 Cohesion
9.1 Text
9.2 Grammatical cohesion
9.3 Lexical cohesion
9.4 An extended example
10 Authority
10.1 Displacement
10.2 Authoritative grammar and the London Underground
10.3 Deixis: pointing, showing, and tracking
11 Doing, thinking, saying, and being
11.1 Verbs and meaning
11.2 Verbs in poetry
11.3 Energy transfer
11.4 Verbs in literary fiction
12 Actions and agents
12.1 Choice and construal
12.2 Applying
12.3 An extended analysis and rewrite
12.4 Re-construing the immigration discourse
13 Creating meaning
13.1 Grammar as choice
13.2 Creating characters
13.3 Applying to writing
14 The language of conversation
14.1 What is special about conversational spoken English?
14.2 The lexis and grammar of conversational spoken English
14.3 Try some conversation analysis yourself
15 Grammar and spelling
15.1 Analysis
15.2 Homophones
15.3 Word families
15.4 Word classes
15.5 Spelling rules
16 Punctuation
16.1 What’s the point of punctuation?
16.2 Global punctuation
16.3 Sentences and ‘sentence punctuation’
16.4 Intentions and ‘sentence punctuation’
16.5 Counting punctuation
17 Viewpoint
17.1 Whose viewpoint?
17.2 Reported speech and thoughts
17.3 Hidden evaluations
18 Variation
18.1 Variation
18.2 Written or spoken
18.3 Grammatical or ungrammatical
18.4 Standard or non-Standard
18.5 Trendiness
18.6 Old or new
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements
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