How grammar is taught in England should change

The teaching of grammar – the ways that words are combined to make sentences – can be controversial. It often leads to debates about “correct English” and can result in people being judged if their use of language deviates from this “correct” form.

England’s current national curriculum, implemented in 2014, introduced a lot more grammar teaching to primary schools. However, new research led by Scott White and his colleagues with 1,700 primary school children and 70 teachers across 70 schools, has found that the approach to teaching grammar to help writing has not been effective to improve children’s narrative writing. The extensive grammar requirements in the national curriculum, including their link with a particular view of correct English – defined as “standard English”– represents an unacceptably ideological influence on the national curriculum.

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