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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Grammar for Teachers
    sub title: A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers
  name:
    name part: DeCapua, Andrea.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 444 p. online resource.
  abstract: The purpose of Grammar for Teachers is to encourage readers to develop a solid understanding of the use and function of grammatical structures in American English. It approaches grammar from a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach; however, throughout Grammar for Teachers differences between formal and informal language, and spoken and written English are discussed. Grammar for Teachers avoids jargon or excessive use of technical terminology and reviews essential grammar structures clearly and concisely. The text encourages users to tap into their own, often subconscious, knowledge of the grammar of English and to make it a conscious knowledge they can apply to their own varied teaching settings. Grammar for Teachers emphasizes looking at grammar from the perspective of learners of English, an approach that allows teachers to better appreciate the language difficulties learners of English face in ESL or mainstream classrooms. Discussions of areas of difficulties for learners of English are included throughout the text. Grammar for Teachers makes the study of grammar interesting and relevant by presenting grammar in context and by using authentic material from a wide variety of sources, including magazines, newspapers, children's books, bestsellers, works of literature, and academic prose. In each chapter, the numerous Discovery Activities engage users in exploring the different elements of grammar and in considering how these elements work together to form meaningful units. The subsequent discussion of each Discovery Activity allows users to explore specific elements of grammar on their own. At the end of each chapter, additional Practice Activities ask users to apply the grammar concepts presented in each chapter. Included in the Practice Activities are samples of relevant learner errors and error analysis exercises.
  table of contents: What is Grammar? -- Morphology -- The Noun Phrase -- Adjectives and Adverbs -- to Verbs and Verb Phrases -- Time, Tense, and Aspect of Verbs -- Modal Auxiliary Verbs and Related Structures -- Basic Sentence Patterns and Major Variations -- Compound Sentences and Introduction to Complex Sentences: Adverbial Clauses -- Complex Sentences Continued Relative Clauses -- Complex Sentences Continued: Noun Clauses -- Verbal Constructions -- Erratum.
  note: edited by Andrea DeCapua.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Language and education
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Education and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Educational
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Language Education
  subject:
    topic: Learning & Instruction
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 407.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780387763323
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76332-3
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204162958.0
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