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Wijnands, Astrid; van Rijt, Jimmy; Coppen, Peter-Arno – Language Awareness, 2021
Traditional L1 grammar teaching focuses on students' learning the correct grammar rules rather than learning how to deal with grammatical issues in real life. This is mainly due to the fact that traditional grammar education suggests that language consists of sentences which are well-formed according to a fixed prescriptive norm. However, language…
Descriptors: Native Language, Grammar, Teaching Methods, Language Attitudes
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van Rijt, Jimmy; Coppen, Peter-Arno – Language Awareness, 2017
L1 grammar education is internationally criticised because of its pedagogy and its curriculum content. There is a gap between linguistic theory and school grammar in which the latter rarely makes use of possibly relevant insights from the former. At the same time, linguistics itself has never seriously undertaken attempts to identify the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Native Language, Syntax, Semantics