Teaching grammar has always constituted a major part of language education in curricula
around the world, although it has also been heavily debated. Most of the debate on grammar …

When teaching grammar, one of the biggest challenges teachers face is how to make their
students achieve conceptual understanding. Some scholars have argued that metaconcepts …

This paper briefly explains how to conduct a Delphi study, an interactive and iterative data
collection method that utilizes expert opinion to create an artifact. Using phase one of a …

Traditional L1 grammar teaching focuses on students' learning the correct grammar rules
rather than learning how to deal with grammatical issues in real life. This is mainly due to the …

This paper explores the conceptions of grammar of first-year teacher students (N= 235) in
Norway. A conventional content analysis is used to analyse the answers from the first part of …

This mixed-method quasi-experimental study examined whether metaconceptual grammar
teaching impacts on (a) students' L1 grammatical understanding,(b) their 'blind'use of …

This article presents the results of a study conducted in Spain concerning a secondary
school teacher's conceptualizations of grammar teaching and its relation to writing …

“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write,
you can tell if you've said or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-turned …

In L1 grammar teaching, teachers often struggle with the students' conceptual understanding
of the subject matter. Frequently, students do not acquire an in-depth understanding of …

The importance of teacher subject knowledge as key professional knowledge has been
emphasised in successive studies over the past thirty years, yet there are very few empirical …