| description |
Jan-Wouter Zwart. 2010. Levende taalkunde. In Hans Hulshof
and Ton Hendrix, eds., Taalkunde en het schoolvak Nederlands, p. 51-54. Amsterdam: Vereniging van leraren in vreemde talen en Levende Talen Magazine, ISBN 978-90-810288-5-1. |
| type | Professional publication. |
| ID | 2010a | 141 | first version November 4, 2009; corrections December 8, 2009 |
| origin | This article is based on a presentation of May 8, 2009, in Nijmegen, at the mini-symposium "Wat moeten wij met de grammatica?" on the occasion of Peter-Arno Coppen's inaugural address on that same day. The papers read there were bundled with some others in a special issue of Levende talen magazine on teaching grammar at school. |
| keywords | school grammar; ontleden; linguistics in the curriculum |
| summary | If the objective of education is to assist pupils in understanding the world and themselves, linguistics deserves a place in the curriculum. However, this requires abandoning traditional grammar teaching, which serves only (questionable) practical purposes, and offers no reflection on language as a unique human faculty. |
| related |
full text (Dutch) Presentations: Nijmegen, 05/2009 |
