Teaching about grammaticality with online tools

Authors

  • Beth Rapp Young

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i2.5109

Keywords:

grammaticality, language attitudes, grammar pedagogy, online instruction, prescriptivism

Abstract

This paper describes an introductory online assignment for an upper-division grammar class that helps students overcome preconceived notions about grammaticality. In anonymous end-of-semester surveys, students often label this assignment “the discussion assignment that taught me the most.” This assignment helps students understand that their intuition, while useful, is not sufficient for recognizing grammatical utterances.

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Published

2021-10-12

How to Cite

Rapp Young, Beth. 2021. “Teaching about Grammaticality With Online Tools”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6 (2): 5109. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i2.5109.