Reblogged: writing skills and grammar teaching: the misinterpreted study of Englicious

Originally published by Tom Freeman on Stroppy Editor:

“A teacher running an interactive grammar exercise (still from Englicious in the Classroom video) A recent study, as you may or may not have heard, has found that teaching grammar to Year 2 children (age 6-7) does not improve their writing. But that’s not what it found.

The study, by researchers at UCL and the University of York, did not compare grammar teaching with no grammar teaching. It compared one particular programme of grammar teaching, called Englicious, with the grammar teaching that schools were doing already, and it found that Englicious produced results that were essentially no better than the other grammar teaching.”

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