SCHOOLS: Teaching grammar: the blind leading the blind*

A Queensland teachers’ guide to teaching grammar is full of grammatical errors, reports Kevin Donnelly.The debacle surrounding the resources developed by the English Teachers Association of Queensland, designed to “help teachers to defend and explain the place of grammar in the school curriculum and in our classrooms”, underscores our dumbed-down education system.In the words of Rodney Huddleston, a retired professor in linguistics of the University of Queensland and one of the principal authors…

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