Now, there's an idea I can get behind. It's a line from
this piece by Susan Behrends in the
Chronicle of Higher Ed. She writes this:
The goal: for teachers to better appreciate and deal with all the forms
of English that are present in the college population, and aid students
as they transition to college study and face a range of
academic-literacy demands across subject matter.
The just past American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting had a session on teaching science through linguistics in K12, as reported
here on the Log. Movement in the right direction, at least.
Hear hear! Maybe it'll also help some professors start grading papers more on content than on a handful of supposed "grammar" errors.
ReplyDeleteThat WOULD be nice.
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