Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American English for Native and Non-
Updated and revised with more examples and expanded discussions, this second edition continues the aim of providing teachers with a solid understanding of the use and function of grammatical structures in American English. The book avoids jargon and prese
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Andrea DeCapua
Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers Second Edition
Springer Texts in Education
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Andrea DeCapua
Grammar for Teachers A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers Second Edition
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Andrea DeCapua New York University New York, NY USA
Previous Edition has ISBN 978-0-387-76331-6 (hardcover). Different signing entity for second edition because applied linguistics was moved from New York to Dordrecht in 2008. ISSN 2366-7672 Springer Texts in Education ISBN 978-3-319-33914-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33916-0
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ISBN 978-3-319-33916-0
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Preface to the Second Edition
The first edition of Grammar for Teachers: A Guide to American English for Native and Non-Native Speakers was the result of my frustrations over many years of teaching structure courses and not being able to find an appropriate grammar text for the pre-service and in-service teachers enrolled in these classes. The students in these courses represented a variety of teaching backgrounds: pre-service teachers, ESL and EFL teachers at all levels and teaching in all types of programs, native and non-native speakers of English, content-area teachers with ESL students in their classes needing additional certification or endorsement, and many others. Some of these students had a strong knowledge of English grammar but had difficulties in applying their knowledge to real-life discourse. Other students’ exposure had been limited to lessons in “correctness,” and they were generally unaware of which language features were central to teac
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