Language Alive in the Classroom

REBECCA S. WHEELER teaches writing, grammar, and linguistics in the English Department at Christopher Newport University in Virginia.

• Introduction by Rebecca S. WheelerBeyond Grammar of the Traditional KindGrammar, Tradition and the Living Language by David B. UmbachThe Persistence of Traditional Grammar by Edwin BattistellaPrestige English Is not a Natural Language by Nicholas SobinNew Ways in the ClassroomDialect Awareness Programs in the School and Community by Walt WolframLinguistics Is for Kids by Jeannine M. DonnaLooking at Life Through Language by Patricia MacGregor-MendozaIn Front of Our Eyes: Undergraduates Reflecting on Language Change by Anca NemoianuGrammar Teaching Is Dead--NOT! by Richard HudsonLanguage and WritingWriting Standard English IS Acquiring a Second Language by Susan K. HeckReading, Writing and Linguistics: Principles from the Little Red Schoolhouse by Gail Brandel ViechnickiCopious Reasoning: The Student Writer as an Astute Observer of Language by Todd OakleyWriting Well in an Unknown Language: Linguistics and Composition in an English Department by Victor RaskinLanguage and LiteratureWaterships All the Way Down: Using Science Fiction to Teach Linguistics by Suzette Haden ElginIn Fiction, Whose Speech, Whose Vision? by Elizabeth Closs TraugottThe Poetics of Everyday Conversation by Deborah TannenOn Dictionaries and GrammarsWho Wrote Your Dictionary?: Demystifying the Contents and Construction of Dictionaries by Sylvia ShawOnline Resources for Grammar Teaching and Learning: The Internet Grammar of English by Bas Aarts, Gerald Nelson, and Justin BuckleyIndex