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Chapter 10: Developing knowledge about language and grammar in context
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Summary
Learning about grammar is learning about how language works in a range of contexts and this informs the choices we make when speaking and writing. For many of us, language itself is not often the focus of the many events and encounters that make up our daily lives, as most often our exchanges, even our text messages, which are written versions of oral language, are exchanged in a familiar context with others whom we know well. Anyone speaking any language, dialect, creole or pidgin has learnt how to use the grammar of that language… and that includes you! However, for teachers it is not enough to just use the building blocks of language, the grammar, we need to be able to reflect on and talk about how language works and to help learners to do the same.
Keywords
- English
- literacies
- primary
- Australia
- teaching
- education
- language
- grammar
- mode continuum
- contexts
About the book
- Chapter DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009154048.011
- Book DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009154048
- Subjects Education,Education policy, strategy and reform,Teacher training and professional development
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 20 October 2022
- ISBN: 9781009154031
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 02 March 2022
- ISBN: 9781009154048
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