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Kolln, Martha; Hancock, Craig – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
This article assumes the value of a scientifically grounded, rhetorically focused, professionally supported, and publicly embraced grammar within the public schools and examines the past century of practices within the United States from that perspective. It describes a brief renaissance in the 50's and early 60's, inspired largely by the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Grammar, Structural Grammar, Generative Grammar

Menyuk, Paula – Journal of Education, 1995
Discusses the role of language development in educational achievement and the implications of this role for curriculum development. Children's preschool knowledge of language and its development in early school years is discussed. How their language experiences in school might enhance their language development also is outlined. Highlighted are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education