The Teaching of English

The Teaching of English
Author: Ian Michael
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 652
Release: 1987-05-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521241960

Not only academic educationalists interested in the history of the curriculum, but teachers - from primary schools to University, will find this book of compelling interest.

Language Between Description and Prescription

Language Between Description and Prescription
Author: Lieselotte Anderwald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190270675

Based on 258 English grammar books, Language Between Description and Prescription investigates nineteenth-century grammar writing relating to actual language change, especially in the verb phrase. Lieselotte Andewald proposes that not all changes were noticed in the first place, and those that were noticed were not necessarily criticized. The book also demonstrates that though grammars were prescriptivist, their effect was at best minimal.