Re-narrating grammar instruction
Addressing teachers’ narrative understanding of language use
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21589968 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mike Metz (0000-0002-2895-1321, University of Missouri, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 444-459 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0782 • E-ISSN: 1747-7581 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09500782.2022.2151367 |
| OpenAlex | W4311055048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
This study examines teaching about grammar and language use in secondary schools through a narrative lens. The author analyses narrative episodes in interviews with three secondary English language arts teachers in the USA to identify patterns in stories of teaching about language use. Findings show teachers with vastly different life experiences teaching in different contexts orient to the same dominant school language narrative that requires students to accommodate the prejudicial expectations for language use held by a wider society. The author argues the maintenance of traditional school language teaching, despite more than 60 years of research in educational linguistics showing its ineffectiveness, stems from the strength of this dominant school language narrative. Ultimately, the author proposes an adoption of narrative methods in working with teachers to actively re-write the dominant school language narrative; foregrounding a critical approach with the goal of addressing social inequities through language use
Foregrounding · Grammar · Language acquisition · Language arts · Language education · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Narrative · Narrative criticism · Narrative inquiry · Pedagogy · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
The Social Construction of Literacy
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society
Fixing English
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race
Critical Language Awareness
English with an Accent
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology
Conceptualisations of ‘grammar teaching’
Considering Counter-Narratives
Positioning level 3
Grammar matters
American English
The Place of Story in the Study of Teaching and Teacher Education
Teachers' Professional Knowledge Landscapes
Narrating Beliefs
Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others
Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis
Small stories as a new perspective in narrative and identity analysis
Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization
Language and linguistics on trial
The dominant school language narrative
The (in)significance of facts in sociolinguistic engagement
The Narrative Construction of Reality
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |