#Grammar

Dame VictoriaG Esq (MPhil (failed))

ancientnmodern

All this talk of languages reminds me of my old French teachers, Miss Stratford and Miss Peel. They had both taught my mother in the late 40s/50s when my school

Ian Cushing

ian_cushing

https://twitter.com/tombennett71/status/1296375488768806914?s=20 Teach Like a Champion advocates for the policing and 'correction' of non-standard spoken grammar. It's a punitive and discriminatory language policy, which contrib

Virginia Calabria

cal_virgi

1/For #linguistweets #It0815 Gaze & syntax in #collaborativeturns: how do they relate? Participants exchanging mutual gaze may continue or extend a co-speaker's turn using more complex #grammar, thereby aligning (co-participating)

Amish Tripathi

authoramish

I am a polytheist, so I insist that the Goddess deserves as much respect as the God. But the anglicised elite follows British English, which privileges the One Male God.

Belfast Unionist

BelfastUnionist

Underachievement in Protestant boys is attributed to a less favorable attitude to education in working class Protestant communities. The primary reason for this is the 11-Plus. Families tend to believe

Sāmapriya Vasu | Šamoprio Boš(u)

samopriya

Here's something new I learned today!Old Uyghur (not a direct ancestor of modern Uyghur) had a so-called anticipating counting system in which, from Erdal 2004,"First stated is the digit as

Nisha Khot

Nishaobgyn

In the spirit of #notyoga2020A thread on ‘Apologies’/ 1‘This is an eloquently worded, genuine & exemplar apology. I have tidied up your grammar and will forward it’ says the

Holly, post-apocalypse elf.

hollymathnerd

HOW @RutgersU IS ACTIVELY HARMING THEIR MARGINALIZED STUDENTS: A THREAD. Link (end) tells of a "decolonization" effort at Rutgers that will de-emphasize correct grammar in student work, "in solidarity with

Min Jin Lee

minjinlee11

A Yale History professor told me to get tutoring for my “remedial English.” I’d already received Wright Prize for nonfiction & later that year, the Veech Prize for fiction, so

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ekklesiagora

I did really bad in math in school and I remain convinced that it was entirely because the way American public shools taught math at the time was really bad.

clare

ClareFeeneyUK

I'd like to widen the debate about the role of good grammar teaching. THREAD. The explicit teaching of grammar is a vital strand of disciplinary literacy. If we want to

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wordsbyana

• private schools are bad• people who went to private school can recognise that private schools are bad• there’s a difference between working class scholarship/bursary kids vs non• (almost) everyone

Rikker Dockum #BlackLivesMatter

thai101

This is true! Something that I, as an academic linguist, wish everyone knew: linguists use ‘grammar’ in a different meaning than what they told you ‘grammar’ meant in school. Here

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PlanetofFinks

A thing that no one told me about being an author and that I've never seen brought up, but is very useful to know, is how the copy-editing process works.

Carl Hendrick

C_Hendrick

Thoughts on teaching grammar: 1. A lot of the animus towards teaching grammar seems to come from two radically different views of English language as a subject: If you view

b-boy bouiebaisse

jbouie

I am not a linguist or expert in grammar instruction so I'm not sure I'm qualified to make any judgment here, but there appears to be some distance between your

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