Grammar Without the Teacher
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Copyright: 2024
Pages: 372
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Grammar Without the Teacher comprises a technique that uses a ‘flipped classroom’ or reverse instruction as a method to enhance the learning of English grammar. However, instead of utilizing video, as many flipped classrooms do, I have had a web-enhanced course devised and constructed thirty-two ten pages chapters. The normal progression of classroom instruction – the lecture model – stipulates that the professor introduce the subject, assign reading and study for homework and establish assessment. Grammar Without the Teacher employs a variant model. Students study a concept by themselves, from material prepared specifically for this technique. In class, instructors can dedicate valuable class time to interacting dynamically with their students instead of lecturing. On their part, in class students try to actively use the concept, solve problems together, assimilate information, and create new ideas, higher skills in the taxonomy of learning.
Unit 1. Parts of Speech
Unit 2. Articles
Unit 3. Prepositions
Unit 4. Pronouns 1
Unit 5: Pronouns 2
Unit 6: Count and Non-Count Nouns
Unit 7: Singular and Plural Nouns
Unit 8: Subject–Verb Agreement 1
Unit 9: Subject–Verb Agreement 2
Unit 10: Questions
Unit 11: Conjunctions
Unit 12: Adjectives: Descriptive, Comparative, Superlative, and Equative Forms
Unit 13: Adverbs
Unit 14: Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns
Unit 15: The Present Tenses
Unit 16: Complete Sentences and Sentence Fragments
Unit 17: Expressions of Quantity
Unit 18: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
Unit 19: The Future
Unit 20: The Passive Voice
Unit 21: Gerunds
Unit 22: Imperatives [Commands]
Unit 23: Present Tense Modals
Unit 24: Another, Other, the Other, and Others
Unit 25: Words Often Confused
Unit 26: The Simple Past and the Past Progressive
Unit 27: Adjective Clauses
Unit 28: Adjective Phrases
Unit 29: The Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Progressive
Unit 30: Complex Sentences
Unit 31: Time Clauses
Unit 32: Noun Clauses
Unit 33: Past Tense Modals
Unit 34: The Future Perfect
Unit 35: Direct and Reported Speech
Unit 36: The Conditional
Brian Altano is the author of 14 textbooks, including Writing Processes and Structures and Reading Processes and Structures, published by the University of Michigan Press, and Creative Grammar, a three-level grammar series published by Spotlight Learning. His most recent books are Public and Private Writing by Kendall Hunt and the Emerging Communicators for ESL published by Allwrite Editions. Prof. Altano has taught ESL, literature, and writing at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey for more than 25 years. Prof. Altano has twice been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, and has also held Visiting Professorships at Ramapo, Kean, Union, Middlesex, Rutgers, and N.J.I.T. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Florence, Italy and an Oldrini Foundation Fellowship in Rome, Italy. He has lectured extensively on language learning and translation at national conferences throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. A professional translator and interpreter specializing in Italian, Spanish, French and and Latin, Prof. Altano has translated Notas Fuera Del Tiempo by Victor Arango (Spanish), the short fiction of Carlo Emilio Gadda (Italian), Alberto Moravia (Italian), and Guy de Maupassant (French), as well as computer and technical manuals and the legal documentation for the Parmalat Trial in Italy for the European Union.
Prof. Altano is also a professional storyteller, who has told his original stories in performances throughout the United States (New York, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Austin), and in Austria, Venezuela, Italy, France, Canada, and Morocco. Much of his short fiction has also been published. Prof. Altano has also written and lectured extensively on educational issues. “Language Minority Crossover Students in the ESL Classroom” was a concept that Altano originated. It was later renamed “Generation 1.5.” Articles on this issue appeared in the Princeton University Fellows Report and in Innovations Abstracts (NISOD Publications). To address problems with remedial education, Prof. Altano also researched and wrote Grammar Without the Teacher, an innovative approach using a flipped classroom and technology to streamline remediation. Prof. Altano delivered lectures on the topic at the National TESOL Convention in New York, the New Jersey TESOL Convention in New Brunswick, NJ, and published articles in the Princeton University Fellows Report and in Innovations Abstracts (NISOD Publications). The online text of Grammar Without the Teacher is Prof. Altano’s second collaboration with Kendall Hunt Publishers.
New Edition Coming Soon!
Grammar Without the Teacher comprises a technique that uses a ‘flipped classroom’ or reverse instruction as a method to enhance the learning of English grammar. However, instead of utilizing video, as many flipped classrooms do, I have had a web-enhanced course devised and constructed thirty-two ten pages chapters. The normal progression of classroom instruction – the lecture model – stipulates that the professor introduce the subject, assign reading and study for homework and establish assessment. Grammar Without the Teacher employs a variant model. Students study a concept by themselves, from material prepared specifically for this technique. In class, instructors can dedicate valuable class time to interacting dynamically with their students instead of lecturing. On their part, in class students try to actively use the concept, solve problems together, assimilate information, and create new ideas, higher skills in the taxonomy of learning.
Unit 1. Parts of Speech
Unit 2. Articles
Unit 3. Prepositions
Unit 4. Pronouns 1
Unit 5: Pronouns 2
Unit 6: Count and Non-Count Nouns
Unit 7: Singular and Plural Nouns
Unit 8: Subject–Verb Agreement 1
Unit 9: Subject–Verb Agreement 2
Unit 10: Questions
Unit 11: Conjunctions
Unit 12: Adjectives: Descriptive, Comparative, Superlative, and Equative Forms
Unit 13: Adverbs
Unit 14: Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns
Unit 15: The Present Tenses
Unit 16: Complete Sentences and Sentence Fragments
Unit 17: Expressions of Quantity
Unit 18: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
Unit 19: The Future
Unit 20: The Passive Voice
Unit 21: Gerunds
Unit 22: Imperatives [Commands]
Unit 23: Present Tense Modals
Unit 24: Another, Other, the Other, and Others
Unit 25: Words Often Confused
Unit 26: The Simple Past and the Past Progressive
Unit 27: Adjective Clauses
Unit 28: Adjective Phrases
Unit 29: The Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Progressive
Unit 30: Complex Sentences
Unit 31: Time Clauses
Unit 32: Noun Clauses
Unit 33: Past Tense Modals
Unit 34: The Future Perfect
Unit 35: Direct and Reported Speech
Unit 36: The Conditional
Brian Altano is the author of 14 textbooks, including Writing Processes and Structures and Reading Processes and Structures, published by the University of Michigan Press, and Creative Grammar, a three-level grammar series published by Spotlight Learning. His most recent books are Public and Private Writing by Kendall Hunt and the Emerging Communicators for ESL published by Allwrite Editions. Prof. Altano has taught ESL, literature, and writing at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey for more than 25 years. Prof. Altano has twice been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, and has also held Visiting Professorships at Ramapo, Kean, Union, Middlesex, Rutgers, and N.J.I.T. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Florence, Italy and an Oldrini Foundation Fellowship in Rome, Italy. He has lectured extensively on language learning and translation at national conferences throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. A professional translator and interpreter specializing in Italian, Spanish, French and and Latin, Prof. Altano has translated Notas Fuera Del Tiempo by Victor Arango (Spanish), the short fiction of Carlo Emilio Gadda (Italian), Alberto Moravia (Italian), and Guy de Maupassant (French), as well as computer and technical manuals and the legal documentation for the Parmalat Trial in Italy for the European Union.
Prof. Altano is also a professional storyteller, who has told his original stories in performances throughout the United States (New York, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Austin), and in Austria, Venezuela, Italy, France, Canada, and Morocco. Much of his short fiction has also been published. Prof. Altano has also written and lectured extensively on educational issues. “Language Minority Crossover Students in the ESL Classroom” was a concept that Altano originated. It was later renamed “Generation 1.5.” Articles on this issue appeared in the Princeton University Fellows Report and in Innovations Abstracts (NISOD Publications). To address problems with remedial education, Prof. Altano also researched and wrote Grammar Without the Teacher, an innovative approach using a flipped classroom and technology to streamline remediation. Prof. Altano delivered lectures on the topic at the National TESOL Convention in New York, the New Jersey TESOL Convention in New Brunswick, NJ, and published articles in the Princeton University Fellows Report and in Innovations Abstracts (NISOD Publications). The online text of Grammar Without the Teacher is Prof. Altano’s second collaboration with Kendall Hunt Publishers.