The word ‘grammar’ often invokes a negative reaction in both teachers and students. Many teachers have come through a period in which grammar was neglected; for others, grammar has been taught in a haphazard way. What has brought about this situation?
During the 1960s and 70s, many believed that traditional elements of scholarship should be updated to suit the practices of contemporary education. There followed a period of uncertainty. No one was sure whether grammar instruction should take place or not. Often, if they believed it should, the new curriculum failed to allow it.
However, many in the profession believed that the absence of grammar instruction was contributing to a lowering of literacy levels. As a return to the grammar instruction courses of the past would be unacceptable, a supposed solution was devised – a system which became known as new or functional grammar. This system involved the generalisation of grammatical terms, and stressed the function that language performs, rather than the parts of speech described in traditional grammar.
But before the age of 12 or 13 – long after the need for basic grammar tuition – children do not normally begin to think in abstract terms. No wonder that both parents and teachers complained that the children disliked ‘new’ grammar, while they themselves found it difficult to follow...
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