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Vande Kopple, William J. – 1998
In the last 20 years, research on language has gone from an area that specialists in composition and rhetoric took quite seriously to one that specialists now pay little attention to. This shift can be accounted for because (1) some teachers appear to have given up on using any insights from linguistic analysis in their teaching of composition;…
Descriptors: Dialects, Higher Education, Language Research, Linguistics
Shinkle, Carl R. – 1987
Noting that issues surrounding grammar instruction are a source of controversy within the English language arts curriculum, this concept paper examines the usefulness of formal instruction in naming parts of speech, diagramming sentences, naming types of phrases and clauses, and naming sentence types. Following an introduction that defines…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)