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BL
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957102
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b711472
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| Title & Author
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Beyond the grammar wars : : a resource for teachers and students on developing language knowledge in the English/literacy classroom /\ edited by Terry Locke.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2010.
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ix, 319 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0203854357
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: 0415802644
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: 0415802652
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: 9780203854358
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: 9780415802642
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: 9780415802659
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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ch. 1. Introduction : "grammar wars" and beyond / Terry Locke -- Part I. The "grammar wars" in context -- ch. 2. Blowin' in the wind : English grammar in United States schools / Craig Hancock and Martha Kolln -- ch. 3. The problematics of prescribing grammatical knowledge : the case in England / Urszula Clark -- ch. 4. The "grammar wars" in Australia / Frances Christie -- ch. 5. Knowledge about language in the English classroom : a Scottish perspective / Graeme Trousdale -- Part II. The effectiveness of grammar teaching : the research record -- ch. 6. Teaching sentence-level grammar for writing : the evidence so far / Richard Andrews -- ch. 7. Does explicit teaching of grammar help students to become better writers? insights from empirical research / Amos Van Gelderen -- ch. 8. Ways of knowing : grammar as a tool for developing writing / Debra Myhill -- Part III. Into the classroom : integrating knowledge about language with learning -- ch. 9. "Language as a system of meaning potential" : the reading and design of verbal texts / Hilary Janks -- ch. 10. Discovering a metalanguage for all seasons : bringing literary language in from the cold / Terry Locke -- ch. 11. Scaffolding grammar instruction for writers and writing / Constance Weaver -- ch. 12. Primary school children learning grammar : rethinking the possibilities / Ruth French -- Part IV. Beyond print : a metalanguage for multimodal texts -- ch. 13. A grammar for meaning-making / Gunther Kress -- ch. 14. Schemas for meaning-making and multimodal texts / Anne Cloonan, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope -- ch. 15. Resourcing multimodel literacy pedagogy : toward a description of the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction -- ch. 16. Rules of grammar, rules of play : computer games, literacy and literature / Andrew Burn.
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| Abstract
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What explicit knowledge about language in teachers &/or students appears to enhance literacy development in some way? This book offers a range of theoretical approaches to the issues surrounding this question, together with examples of how these approaches are being realized in actual classrooms.
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Language and languages-- Grammars.
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Second language acquisition.
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Language and languages-- Grammars.
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Second language acquisition.
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Englisch.
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Grammatikunterricht.
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Grammatikunterricht.
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Englisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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428.0071
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| LC Classification
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P118.2.B485 2010
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HD 196rvk
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| Added Entry
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Locke, Terry,1946-
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