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This updated edition of our bestseller is an indispensable reference, written in response to the Australian Curriculum: English. It is organised around the main functions that language plays in our lives â interacting with others, structuring coherent texts, and expressing and connecting ideas. The publication makes links to specific Content Descriptions and Outcomes and extends, for the first time, into Secondary schooling.
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Education General 1 Introduction
What is grammar?
While there are many technical definitions of grammar, for our purposes we could simply say that grammar is a way of describing how a language works to make meaning.
Why learn about grammar?
We learn about grammar to:
A multi-purpose grammar
The description of grammar provided here has been designed so that teachers can use it for a number of different purposes: for exploring how language functions to create different types of meaning; for understanding the structure or formation of various language features; and for anticipating where students might need particular assistance with certain features. The book therefore includes sections on looking at meaning, looking at form, and troubleshooting.
If you are primarily interested in meaning, you might like to focus on those sections that discuss how our linguistic choices create certain meanings. In this book we are viewing grammar as a resource â an array of possibilities from which we can choose. Learning grammar in this sense is seen as extending a learnerâs potential to make and interpret meanings.
If you are primarily interested in form, you might like to focus on those sections that explain how various grammatical features are structured. A traditional motive for teaching about grammar has been the development of an analytical approach to language â an ability to âreason grammaticallyâ â along with the identification and naming of different grammatical categories, providing students with a language for talking about language. Knowing how language is structured helps us to deal with questions such as:
Preferably, however, the focus will be on the relationship between meaning and form. In this book, we look at how the different grammatical categories are involved in the construction of meaning with questions such as:
If you are concerned about the kinds of problems students might encounter, look for the Troubleshooting notes. There are certain linguistic structures that often cause problems, particularly for young students and EAL/ESL1 learners. In many cases, the problems will sort themselves out over time. Often, however, it is useful for the teacher to be able to identify trouble spots so that the problem can be explained or so that activities can be designed to address the difficulty. ESL learners will need a much greater focus on developing their control over English grammatical structures and meaning.
It is this area that many people associate with the learning of grammar: the correction of âmistakesâ. This is a legitimate area of concern. Studentsâ language is often judged by their control over certain linguistic features, and this can be a significant factor in examinations, job applications, and so on. It is important, however, not to let this get out of perspective. Many âproblemsâ reflect studentsâ use of social dialects, especially in the spoken mode: he done it; me and him are going home. In the written mode, however, there are probably only a dozen or so problem structures that regularly crop up â and most of them are to do with punctuation, not grammar. Typical of these are issues such as the use of âcomma splicesâ (It was getting late, we went home.); ârun on sentencesâ (The cows got out of the paddock they ran through the streets the farmer couldnât catch them.); and âsentence fragmentsâ (There were lots of animals. Such as kangaroos, koalas and rabbits.)
A functional perspective
The approach to grammar adopted in this book draws heavily upon the pioneering work done by Professor Michael Halliday in the area of Systemic Functional Linguistics. Functional Grammar is built upon a series of assumptions about the way language works in context:
A functional approach looks at how language enables us to do things in our daily lives. To participate successfully in school and the community, for example, students need to know how to use language:
Achieving different social purposes
As they progress through school and life, learners need to be able to use language in order to achieve a range of social purposes such as describing, explaining, arguing or recounting. These different social purposes are expressed through different text types (or genres). Young children operate with a moderate range of text types, which generally have a relatively basic, unelaborated structure (eg recounts involving only a couple of events, arguments that are often unsupported by evidence, explanations of only a sentence or two in length). With teacher guidance over the years, students should be able to confidently interpret and employ a wide range of text types for a variety of social purposes, including texts that have a more complex, unpredictable structure. This provides students with a solid preparation for the demands of secondary school and life in the community.
The Australian Curriculum: English requires that students develop proficiency in a range of text types for a variety of purposes. While not dealing in detail with different text types, this book will refer to how different grammatical resources are drawn on in achieving different social purposes, such as the use of the past tense to refer to events in a recount or the use of the present tense to refer to âtimelessâ actions in an information report.
Expressing ideas
A major function of language is to represent experience, to help us to express and understand what goes on in our lives. This is sometimes called the âobserverâ function of language. In the school context, this includes using and understanding the language of the different areas of the curriculum. It is now well known that each disciplinary area has its own way of using language to develop knowledge and understandings relevant to that area. The language of science, for example, is quite different from the language of history. The language used in English literary texts is quite different from that of geography texts. Students need to be able to read and write texts that become increasingly technical, abstract, and subject-specific as they move through the school system from primary to secondary school.
On entering school, studentsâ language will be concerned with more particular, everyday understandings (âmy familyâ, âour neighbourhoodâ). As they grow older, they need to be able to talk and write in more generalised terms (âfamiliesâ, âdinosaursâ) about less familiar topics which often require research (âthe planetsâ, âvolcanic eruptionsâ) and specialist terminology (âsolar systemâ, âlavaâ). It cannot be taken for granted that this type of language will develop automatically.
Chapter 2 illustrates how grammar functions to represent experience: the kinds of activities taking place; the participants in those activities; and the circumstances surrounding those activities.
Connecting ideas
Not only do students need to know how to express ideas through language, they need to ...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover Page
- Copyright
- PREFACE
- Dedication
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 LANGUAGE FOR EXPRESSING IDEAS
- 3 CONNECTING IDEAS
- 4 LANGUAGE FOR INTERACTING WITH OTHERS
- 5 CREATING COHESIVE TEXTS
- 6 REVISITING THE FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
- References
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APA 6 Citation
Derewianka, B. (2011). A new grammar companion for teachers ([edition unavailable]). Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA). Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2816332/a-new-grammar-companion-for-teachers-pdf (Original work published 2011)
Chicago Citation
Derewianka, Beverly. (2011) 2011. A New Grammar Companion for Teachers. [Edition unavailable]. Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA). https://www.perlego.com/book/2816332/a-new-grammar-companion-for-teachers-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Derewianka, B. (2011) A new grammar companion for teachers. [edition unavailable]. Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA). Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2816332/a-new-grammar-companion-for-teachers-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Derewianka, Beverly. A New Grammar Companion for Teachers. [edition unavailable]. Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA), 2011. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.