What English Teachers Need to Know about Grammar

Abstract

henever a professional journal in English education runs a special issue on grammar, the focus is invariably on what students need to learn and how we can teach it to them. But also important is the question of what English teachers need to know about this subject and how they can acquire that knowledge. As the teacher of a university course called Grammar and Usage, required for secondary English majors, I regularly struggle with the question of what issues to address in such a course.