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The history of grammar in the mother tongue is in some ways what shaped grammar we see today.Louis Gauchet’s study in 1905 looked at the Swiss village. His research found that between men And women there was a difference that had accrued over what he traced back to be three Generations. This argument for the implementation of grammar to be taught it is told withold the Language inspired both William Labov then here with Peter Trudgill in 70’s.William Labov noticed a cross over pattern between upper middle class and lower middle classWhen observing speech. Trudgill noticed similar patterns. He said class was gauged by income,Education, occupation, residence and lifestyle. This research was done by Fieldworkers in theCommunity who interviewed and taped citizens. Within the Language or the lexical by trying toGauge literacy of people they found vernacular rules which were very complicated part of the phonological.
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Assessing the Value of Grammar Assessing the Value of Grammar in the Mother Tonguein the Mother Tongue
Robert Bridge
August 5th 2008
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Project GoalsProject Goals
Highlight and simply explain how grammar is heard and written
United Kingdom has developed sociolinguistics and Language Structure for Educational purposes
Grammar and how it’s quarterly contribution to learning Language and Structure
Work done to improve grammar
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DescriptionDescription
The readings show a clear progression of development
The work done has been by many inspired by academics of history and geographical location
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Academic teachers, bilingual friends and listening and recording voices.
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What is grammar when spokeWhat is grammar when spoke
Using the mother tongue, we have learned to think, learned to communicate and acquired an intuitive understanding of grammar. However teaching Grammar is NOT a means of teaching language. It is only one element of language learning among a number of others (Ofsted: 2007)
Ofsted (2008): Grammar [Internet] http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/ [Viewed 1/8/ 08]
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Language in the British IslesLanguage in the British Isles
The History p9Excellent introContrary to GrammarGrammatical variation
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David Britain’s book explains the situation in the British Isles really well. James Morley’s intro is most up to date.
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Historical Grammar Guru’sHistorical Grammar Guru’s
King James VI Often ignoredContributed to EnglishDavid Crystal rates him
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Other contributors to the HistoryOther contributors to the History
Some have contributed– Inspired academics to…– Directly contributed– Reshaped Grammar– Studied accents– Noticed cross patterns – Active in the field
WilliamShakespeare
LouisGauchat
WilhemVietor
Fernidand Saussure
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Academic ImprovementsAcademic Improvements
Writer’s, TeachersLecturer’sAwarenessEnglish Community
It only improves when….
Such as Crystal, Trudgill, Chomsky, Aitcheson & Labov apply there findings upon grammar as indeed Germany.
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Academic ImprovementsAcademic Improvements
Writer’s, TeachersLecturer’sAwarenessEnglish
It only improves when….
All of these people indirectly or directly have helped understand grammatical language in U.K.
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North n South Middle & LowerNorth n South Middle & Lower
Field workers in the community
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Leslie Milroy in 1980 said linguistics and sociolinguistics helped to analyse calibrations of the vernacular
Language and Social NetworksLanguage and Social Networks
Lang. class & communityLang. class & community
Accent, dialect,schoolAccent, dialect,school
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Additional infoAdditional info
Conjunctions are words that link up phrases ie ‘and’ but and so’. (Linda Bryson: 1997)
Bryson, L (1997): English Conjunctions. [Viewed Online]http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/bryson.htm [Internet 1/8/08]
Greenbaum, S. and Quirk, R. (1990). A Student's Grammar of the English Language. Essex, England: Longman.
Capital Community College Foundation (2008): [Viewed online]http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/grammarlogs.htm [Internet 2/8/2008]
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ConclusionConclusion The history of grammar in the mother tongue is in
some ways what shaped grammar we see today– Some of this new and other words has Latin roots
Grammatical variation has negations nationwide and sociolinguistics only assumes social significance and language variation– Verbs, imperatives, adverbs, nouns, pronouns,
forms and article allomorphy within sentences The linguistic symptom leaves room for improvement
– Lexical, phonetic, phonological, syntactic meaning and propositional meaning
The solutions between the linguists and the sociolinguists has still not been resolved
