Description
Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation: Rhetorical Tools for Literate Uses of Language gives pre- and in-service teachers of English and English as a Foreign Language a concise look at language as a rhetorical tool, while focusing on teaching and learning about grammar, usage, and punctuation through play and experimentation. The book focuses on having readers work with language in ways that develop their meta-linguistic awareness—showing how we work language and how we make it work for us. Easy to understand and navigate, the book presents the ideas of each chapter with objectives, a discussion of the main concept(s), key assumptions and detailed applications with variations.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword by Robin Troth
Acknowledgements
Figures and Cartoons in Order of Appearance
Introduction
Chapter One
Language as a Function of Purpose: The Conceptual Frame
Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert
Chapter Two
Discourse Communities and Kinds of Language Use
Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert
Chapter Three
Sentence Play (1) Expanding, Combining, Chunking, and Unscrambling
Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert
Chapter Four
Sentence Play (2): Portability, Variability, and Punctuation as Rhetorical Choices
Chapter Five
Style and Language Play
Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert
Chapter Six
Incorporating Diverse Learners’ Knowledge About Language for Language Play
Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert
Chapter Seven
Personalizing The Power of Language
Chapter Eight
The Big Picture: Implementing A Language-Infused English
Language Arts Curriculum
Part II: Back to Basics: Elements of the English Language that Matter in Written
and Formal Spoken Contexts
Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert
Glossary
Annotated Resources
References 394
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