Journal | EL.LE
Journal Issue | 3 | 3 | 2014
Research Article | Prescriptivism and the Genre of Pedagogical Reference Grammars for Italian Students
Prescriptivism and the Genre of Pedagogical Reference Grammars for Italian Students
Abstract
Despite being thought of as – rightly or wrongly – one of the essential tools for in- structed language learning, pedagogical reference grammar books are still mainly uncharted ter- ritory within English grammaticographical research. The aim of this paper is to illustrate some distinctive features of the genre of pedagogical reference grammar books for Italian students of English vis-à-vis the notion of prescriptivism. The genre originated in Italy in the 80s of last cen- tury as communicative approaches started to become mainstream in Italian schools. The analysis is based on a corpus of eleven grammar books and shows that the genre is rooted in a view of grammar and an approach to grammar selection and presentation which may be dubbed ‘peda- gogical prescriptivism’.
Published Nov. 1, 2014 | Language: it
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