Lessons on grammar are a key feature of the national curriculum taught in England's primary schools, but they don't appear to help children to learn to write, new research reveals. The study, ...

Children can be left confused and unable to write accurate sentences because of "uncertain" grammar teaching, experts have warned. But confident teachers can enable students to use their grammar ...

About three months ago, a colleague told me that she just spent two hours teaching students the different usages of the English word "as." I then asked her if she thought, after her dedicated efforts, ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...

The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Grammar experts say English teachers will struggle to teach the subject when a new curriculum is ...

It’s an exciting time for grammar, according to the experts. But there’s a need for fresh thinking and the word itself can be misleading Some of the country’s most eminent linguists came together for ...

Many students are confused about grammar and sentence structure – so should universities teach it explicitly? Words image from www.shutterstock.com Imagine a student turning up at university and not ...

ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE is not, as the saying goes, the same thing as evidence of absence. But if you continue looking for something intently, and keep failing to find it, you can be forgiven for starting ...