Future English teacher Aaron DeLay has created this very cool slide about grammar and language instruction, drawing on scholarship by Patricia A Dunn and me. Please check it out, and please credit Aaron if you use this.
Thanks, Aaron! Follow him @adelayedteacher
If you’d like to learn more about Grammar Rants: How a Backstage Tour of Writing Complaints Can Help Students Make Informed, Savvy Choices about Their Writing, and get the first chapter for free, please see this site: https://www.heinemann.com/products/0605.aspx
And check out Patricia A. Dunn’s blog post on Writers Who Care, “Does Bad ‘Grammar’ Instruction Make Writing Worse?” https://writerswhocare.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/does-bad-grammar-instruction-make-writing-worse/