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Natural Grammar: a Painless Way to Teach Grammar in the Secondary Language Arts Classroom

Natural Grammar provides a way for the junior high or high school English teacher to draw upon students' "natural," or subconscious, knowledge of the systems and structures of spoken English. When such subconscious knowledge is conceptualized (brought to the conscious level), the students can transfer that knowledge to their writing. Natural grammar, in other words, allows the teacher to begin with what students already know, so that he or she may help students to build upon that knowledge in the context of the students' own writing. Chapters include a brief history of grammar instruction, a synopsis of the theories that contributed to the development of natural grammar, a description of natural grammar, and suggestions for implementation of natural grammar in the classroom.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc501245
Date05 1900
CreatorsScott, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann)
ContributorsRaign, Kathryn Rosser, Buckalew, Mary, Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 93 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Scott, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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