how to improve grammar

[maria]

I've done the Celta course and have been teaching for just over a year-I found the methodology very helpful but what lacked was how to teach grammar-I am learning it as i go along!!! Anyway,does anyone know of websites where, I could improve my grammar and look at the English language from the student's point of view? Perhaps a distance learning course? Where do you find all the tricks of the trade that help in language learning?? Thanks in advance for any suggestions

[dduck]

Hi Maria,

I've found http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/ a very useful online reference.

If you have some time and a news reader, you can get a great deal of information from various Usenet groups, e.g.

misc.education.language.english
alt.usage.english
alt.english.usage.

I've been reading these groups for a while - what I've found is a lot of bickering between grammarians - your job would be to chose which set of bickering opinions you wish to adopt

Iain

[maria]

hi Iain

thanks for your help-it sounds like my cup of tea-the bickering that is

[Karl Dee]

A friend of mine put this mini links list together and I think it's fairly good:

http://www.az-tesol.org/webliography/grammar.htm

K. D.